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At the Fremantle Shipwreck museum there is a display of the remnants of the Dutch shipwreck the Batavia

 

Batavia was a ship of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Built in Amsterdam in 1628 as the company's new flagship, she sailed that year on her maiden voyage for Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies. On 4 June 1629, Batavia was wrecked on the Houtman Abrolhos, a chain of small islands off the western coast of Australia. (Wikipedia)

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Uploaded on April 25, 2023
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