(MENAFN) Based on a report by 60 Minutes, nearly 400 years passed since Australia's first and major massacre, yet scientists continue to find countless buried skeletons in the so-called "Murder Island."
In 1629, Batavia the Dutch sailing ship witnessed the mass murder which resulted in it the bloodiest shipwreck in Australia. The Batavia ended up colliding with a reef 25 miles off the coast of Westernstern Australia next to the Houtman Abrolhos Islands.
In attempt to reach land, around forty individuals drowned while survivals struggled with even worse conditions in Beacon Island which became later known as Batavia's Graveyard.
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