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Beacon Island, also known as Batavia's Graveyard, [1] is an island on the eastern side of the Wallabi Group at the northern end of the Houtman Abrolhos, in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Western Australia.
Beacon Island, in Portsmouth Township, Carteret County, North Carolina, is an island in the Ocracoke Inlet.The island was used as part of a trading port developed in the late 1700s, [1] and during the American Civil War it was the site of the Confederate Army Fort Okrakoke. [2]
Beacon Island (Hudson Strait), Canada, lying off Dorset Island; Beacon Island (Ungava Bay), off Cape Naujaat, Canada; Anguttuaq formerly Beacon Island near Kimmirut, Canada; Upajjana, formerly Beacon Island, Cumberland Sound, Canada
The main islands of the Wallabi Group are North Island, West Wallabi Island, East Wallabi Island and Beacon Island. [6] The group is best known for the shipwreck of Batavia on Morning Reef near Beacon Island in 1629, [7] and the subsequent mutiny and massacre that took place among the survivors. [8]
Batavia's Graveyard, now known as Beacon Island, in the Wallabi Group, Abrolhos Islands. On 4 June 1629, Batavia struck Morning Reef near Beacon Island, part of the Houtman Abrolhos off the western coast of Australia. [13] Of the 322 aboard, most of the passengers and crew managed to get ashore, although 40 people drowned.
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The Wallabi Group is best known for the shipwreck of the Batavia on Morning Reef near Beacon Island in 1629, [5] and the subsequent mutiny and massacres that took place among the survivors. [6] Another wreck for which the location is known is the Hadda, which was wrecked off Beacon Island in April 1877 [7] and now lies about a kilometre north ...
Massacre of the Batavia's survivors on Beacon Island For some reason, Pelsaert stayed in his cabin for much of the voyage, even though he was responsible for the ship. He later claimed the confession tortured out of Cornelisz confirmed that Jacobsz had deliberately steered the Batavia off course.