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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.
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.
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]
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 ...
The remnants of defensive walls and stone shelters built by Wiebbe Hayes and his men on West Wallabi Island are Australia's oldest known European structures. [8] [11] [12] [13] The Wiebbe Hayes Stone Fort and the well can still be seen to this day. [4] [13] In the 1970s, the wreck of the Batavia was located and many artifacts were salvaged.
Houtman Abrolhos from space The Houtman Abrolhos is an island chain off the west coast of Australia. It is widely reported that the Houtman Abrolhos contains 122 islands, but only 93 islands had gazetted names in 1996. In the gazetteer of 2011 Hartley Island appears no more, but Barge Rock, Second Sister and Shag Rock appear, which raises the number of gazetted names to 96 (30 in the Wallabi ...
Houtman Abrolhos Islands National Park is a national park in the Mid West region of Western Australia, 75 kilometres (47 mi) west of Geraldton.It was declared on 5 July 2019, is located in the City of Greater Geraldton, [1] [2] and is part of the Geraldton Sandplains bioregion.
The basement of East Wallabi Island is the Wallabi Limestone, a dense calcretised, coral limestone platform that underlies the entire Wallabi Group. This platform, which arises abruptly from a flat shelf, is about 40 metres (130 ft) thick, and is of Quaternary origin.