“Batavia” the Dutch East Indiaman battling the furious Roaring Forties while crossing the southern Indian Ocean on her maiden voyage in 1629. Weeks later, on June 4th in calm seas, she tragically struck Morning Reef in the Abrolhos Islands just 60 kilometres off Geraldton — becoming not only an infamous wreck but also the centre of one of the most intriguing and gruesome chapters of Western Australian history, marked by survival, mutiny, and massacre.

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