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. According to the National Museum Australia , 300 ...

Australia intercepted a boat carrying about 200 asylum seekers off the country's northwest coast and put them on a troop ship already carrying hundreds of other asylum seekers bound for Papua New ...

Each sunken ship, whether American, Japanese or Australian, marks the spot of a fierce fight for control. Today, however, Australia faces a different kind of battle, as these shipwrecks ...

The SS Iron Crown was sunk by a torpedo in World War Two The wreck of an Australian ship sunk by a Japanese ... It had been transporting ore from South Australia to New South Wales when it was ...

The Australian government says it will investigate how thousands of sheep died on a live export ship last year ... which had been provided by Animals Australia. The BBC investigated the live ...

In Western Australia’s case ... which houses relics from the infamous 17th century Dutch Batavia shipwreck. Grab a beer at ...

A barge wreck found in September last year has been confirmed as the earliest known shipwreck discovered to date in Western Australia's Swan River, the WA Museum said. The barge was identified as ...

He said talks were going on between Australia, the U.N. administration in East Timor and the United Nations in Geneva. The asylum seekers have been stranded since Sunday on a Norwegian cargo ship ...

BATAVIA, Ohio — Despite Batavia residents fighting for multiple years to save a carriage house from possible demolition, the structure is set to be knocked down next week. More than 2,400 ...

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Daly, Aoife Domínguez-Delmás, Marta van Duivenvoorde, Wendy and Csank, Adam 2021. Batavia shipwreck timbers reveal a key to Dutch success in 17th-century world trade. PLOS ONE, Vol. 16, Issue. 10, p.

Historians say silverware recovered from a 1629 shipwreck off the coast of Western Australia has revealed the misguided view of Indians held by Europeans at that time. The ship named Batavia, with ...