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Wiebbe Hayes Stone Fort

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245: 31: 313:. The remnants of "the fort ... nothing more than a tiny, sandstone-coloured rectangle in the scrub about 100 metres from the sea. It is unimpressive and isolated and yet this simple structure, just some loose rocks piled up to make a simple fortress, is the first building Europeans constructed in Australia." 674: 669: 305:
built by Wiebbe Hayes and his men on West Wallabi Island are Australia's oldest known European structures, more than a century and a half before expeditions to the Australian continent by
286:, took control of the other survivors and left Hayes' group there, secretly hoping that they would starve or die of thirst. However, the soldiers discovered that they were able to wade to 649: 654: 579: 405: 83: 414: 644: 322: 542: 559: 382: 422: 185: 128: 290:, where there was a fresh water spring. Furthermore, West and East Wallabi Island are the only islands in the group upon which the 244: 228: 664: 659: 504: 76: 452: 679: 173: 521: 356: 347: 294:
lives. Thus the soldiers had access to sources of both food and water that were unavailable to the mutineers.
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shipwreck and massacre. West Wallabi Island is 63 km (39 mi) from the coast of Western Australia.
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The Slaughter Point Site: An Archaeological Investigation of a Site Associated with the Batavia Shipwreck
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Later the mutineers mounted a series of attacks, which the soldiers repulsed. The remnants of improvised
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Following the Batavia shipwreck in 1629, a group of the marooned soldiers under the command of
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were put ashore on West Wallabi Island to search for water. A group of mutineers, led by
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A Twisted Truth – The VOC ship Batavia: comparing history & archaeology
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Buildings and structures associated with the Dutch East India Company
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Defensive structure in West Wallabi Island, Australia
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Batavia Shipwreck Site and Survivor Camps Area 1629
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Australian National Maritime Museum. 2018 655:Buildings and structures completed in 1629 415:Department of the Environment and Heritage 264:and was built in 1629 by survivors of the 20: 323:List of the oldest buildings in the world 342: 340: 338: 334: 182: 223: 215: 207: 199: 191: 168: 158: 150: 142: 134: 125: 7: 578:Beasley, Carolyn (6 February 2020). 621:Australian National Maritime Museum 383:Australian Broadcasting Corporation 129:Western Australia Heritage Register 615:Gapps, Stephen (8 February 2010). 14: 617:"A musket barrel made of copper?" 186:Australian National Heritage List 645:1629 establishments in Australia 29: 1: 503:Parry, Chris (27 July 2015). 696: 520:Ariese, Csilla E. (2010). 99:28.4613357°S 113.7041114°E 596:"Batavia Shipwreck Ruins" 357:The Sydney Morning Herald 238: 234: 179: 40: 28: 164:Houtman Abrolhos Islands 104:-28.4613357; 113.7041114 582:. 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West Wallabi Island
Coordinates
28°27′41″S 113°42′15″E / 28.4613357°S 113.7041114°E / -28.4613357; 113.7041114
Western Australia Heritage Register
Houtman Abrolhos Islands
3990
Australian National Heritage List
105887

West Wallabi Island
Australia
Batavia
Wiebbe Hayes
Jeronimus Cornelisz
East Wallabi Island
tammar wallaby
defensive walls
stone shelters
James Cook
Arthur Phillip
List of the oldest buildings in the world



Elder, Bruce
"The brutal shore"
The Sydney Morning Herald
"Batavia has"
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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