Wreck of the Batavia
The wreck of the Batavia was a 1629 shipwreck that occurred in the Houtman Abrolhos islands off the coast of Western Australia. A mutiny and massacre subsequently took place amongst the survivors.
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[edit]- ... the wreck of the Batavia provides the greatest dramatic tragedy in Australian history, beside which the Mutiny on the Bounty is an anaemic tale.
- Thomas Davies Mutch, in a private letter to Henrietta Drake-Brockman (1947); published in the Foreword to Drake-Brockman's Voyage to Discovery (1963)
