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The WA Museum has also produced a series of pamphlets documenting wrecks in specific regions. Part of its 'wreck trail', or 'wreck access' concept welcoming visitors to shipwrecks as part of 'their' maritime heritage, these and the plaques placed above and below water at many sites are aimed towards cultural tourism, the recreational visitor and schools.
The Australian Netherlands Committee on Old Dutch Shipwrecks (ANCODS) is an organization tasked with maintaining and allocating artefacts from 17th and 18th century Dutch shipwrecks off the coast of Western Australia. It was founded in 1972 by the Agreement between Australia and the Netherlands Concerning Old Dutch Shipwrecks. [1]
1845 British Admiralty chart showing Zeewijk wreck location. The Zeewijk (or Zeewyk) was an 18th-century East Indiaman of the Dutch East India Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, commonly abbreviated to VOC) that was shipwrecked at the Houtman Abrolhos, off the coast of Western Australia, on 9 June 1727
It is the site of numerous shipwrecks, the most famous being two Dutch ships: Batavia, which was wrecked in 1629 (followed by massacre of over 100 survivors by mutineers), and Zeewijk, wrecked in 1727. The islands are an unincorporated area with no municipal government, subject to direct administration of the Government of Western Australia.
An 1,107-ton iron sailing ship that ran aground on Pelsaert Island in the Houtman Abrolhos, without loss of life, in the same location as the wreck of Marten several years previously. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] 28°56′13″S 113°58′09″E / 28.93687°S 113.969225°E / -28.93687; 113.969225 (
The island is best known as the location of the Batavia wreck, mutiny and massacre. Batavia was wrecked on Morning Reef in June 1629. Most of the 316 passengers and crew of the Dutch East India Company ship were washed ashore on the smaller islands on the eastern side of the Wallabi Group.
The location of the wreck of the Zuytdorp off the coast of Western Australia There was news of an unidentified shipwreck on the shore in 1834 when Aboriginal people told a farmer near Perth about a wreck – the colonists presumed it was a recent wreck and sent rescue parties who failed to find the wreck or any survivors.
The Wardandi, an Aboriginal Australian people, were the first peoples in the area. They called it "Doogalup". [5]The English navigator Matthew Flinders named Cape Leeuwin after the first known ship to have visited the area, the Leeuwin ("Lioness"), a Dutch vessel that charted some of the nearby coastlines in 1622.