The University of Western Australia. The Batavia devolved into chaos when the ship’s commander Francisco Pelsaert left some 282 survivors behind on Beacon Island—part of the Houtman Abrolhos ...

The remains on Beacon Island, off Western Australia, date from the wreck of the Dutch East India ship the Batavia in 1629. In the aftermath of the disaster, more than 100 survivors were murdered ...

Few people ever get to Beacon Island, and yet it was the location of one of the most horrible episodes in early European Australia’s history. Being here is a thrill. After the shipwreck, ...

A mass grave was discovered on Beacon Island in 1999, but archaeologists ... "Obviously it's a really significant site, not just for Western Australia and the Dutch, but also for Australia ...

The skeleton, found on Beacon Island, is believed to be linked to ... "This was the first time that Europeans lived in Australia — albeit it wasn't in the mainland but it was here — so it's ...

In a story that aired on 60 Minutes Australia, correspondent Liam Bartlett ... well preserved in the sand of what is now Beacon Island. They hope to discover what led to the sudden mass slaughter ...

He knew the missing skeleton was here. Somewhere. It was 2014, and Daniel Franklin, a forensic anthropologist at the University of Western Australia, was on Beacon Island, a tiny patch of land off ...

They would have been among the nearly 300 survivors that ended up stranded on Beacon Island – part of the Houtman Abrolhos, a chain of more than 120 islands off the west coast of Australia.

More human remains believed to be linked to a 17th century shipwreck have been found on an island off Western Australia's Mid West. Two adult skeletons have been found on Beacon Island in a burial ...

Notably, centrally located graves on Beacon Island suggest a functioning graveyard ... Survival on the Houtman Abrolhos Islands in Western Australia, Historical Archaeology (2023).

Dr Paterson is part of a team of Dutch and Australia archaeologists still ... he was said to have committed only one murder himself on Beacon Island: that of a baby, which he strangled to death.