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The mutineers camped on Beacon Island, and many of the victims were buried there. [2] The island, along with the rest of the Abrolhos, was likely visited by sealers and guano miners through the 19th century. In 1877, survivors of the Hadda shipwreck lived on the island for five days.
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.
Jeronimus Cornelisz (c. 1598 – 2 October 1629) was a Dutch apothecary and Dutch East India Company merchant who sailed aboard the merchant ship Batavia which foundered near the Australian mainland. Cornelisz then led one of the bloodiest mutinies in history.
A 1647 engraving showing the Beacon Island massacre of survivors of the Batavia shipwreck. In 1629, some of the islands were the scene of an infamous shipwreck and mutiny. The Dutch ship Batavia, under the command of Francisco Pelsaert, ran aground on her maiden voyage to the port of Batavia, the capital of the Dutch East Indies.
Before this was possible, the ship had been wrecked. The wreck of the Batavia took place on Morning Reef, about 1.6 kilometres (1 mi) to the south of what is now known as Beacon Island. Of the 341 passengers and crew, about 40 drowned early on while trying to reach a small island, while the rest succeeded in getting ashore.
But its three-masted timber sailing ship Endurance fell victim to the treacherous Weddell Sea, becoming ensnared in pack ice in January 1915. It was progressively crushed and sank 10 months later.
OceanGate, whose submersible vessel Titan carrying five crew members suffered a ‘catastrophic implosion, in the North Atlantic, has offered tours to the famous shipwreck site since 2021.
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 ...