Madness, murder and rape on the Batavia: new theory on Australia’s most horrific shipwreck

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Dutch academic says an ‘unlikely story about a mad heretic’ has been repeated for 400 years – and poses an alternative

An “evil” man took advantage of a shipwreck to lead a mutiny that caused the death of more than 100 men, women and children.

So goes the story of the Batavia, wrecked off the Western Australian coast in 1629.

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