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    Maybe now the ghosts will rest in peace

    ByGreta 4 February 201527 October 2025

    I read today in a newspaper article that systematic excavation of Beacon Island in the Abrolhos group off the West Australian coast has begun with the discovery of a new grave. That might not mean much to many of you, but it does to me. Beacon Island is the modern name for Batavia’s Graveyard, the…

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    Hiding in plain sight

    ByGreta 17 June 201227 October 2025

    At last, the mystery of the Aagtekerke  which disappeared after sailing from Table Bay in 1726, may have been solved. It has long been believed that the Aagtekerke, like the Batavia and the Zeewijk, met its end on the reefs of the Abrolhos islands, sixty kilometres or so off the west coast of Australia. Ironically,…

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