The ship named Batavia, with over 340 passengers aboard, met its demise in the Houtman Abrolhos islands off the coast of Western Australia in 1629. In the 1970s, a team of maritime archaeologists ...
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I Just Learned That The Traitors Was Based On This Historical Event And I’m ObsessedJasper Hoogendoorn, who oversaw the programme’s development, explained at the Edinburgh TV festival that the show was originally inspired by The Voyage of the Batavia, a Dutch ship which was ...
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Bad weather led Dutch East India Company ship into Western Australian coast, archaeologists findThe Dutch East India Company ship, the Zuytdorp, likely crashed into the shore of Western Australia in 1712 due to a storm and not bad navigation, new research has found. In an article published ...
In the 1970s, distinctive silverware was retrieved from the Batavia shipwreck. Australian historians studying the silverware believe the items were luxurious goods intended for the Mughal Empire ...
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