Here's an article with a new twist to the Batavia disaster. What Ifind striking is the size of the island. If you know Australia at all, screaming 40+C (104+ F in the old money) degrees is not uncommon.
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Madness, murder and rape on the Batavia: new theory on Australia’s most horrific shipwreck
Dutch academic says an ‘unlikely story about a mad heretic’ has been repeated for 400 years – and poses an alternative
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