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1 Welcome Aboard the Batavia!
The VOC ship Batavia sank after striking a reef. What followed was a mutiny and dozens of brutal murders that made the events on the Bounty look like a picnic. Take this quiz and find out all about the Batavia and its adventures!
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10 Q
Leau
Aug 27 04
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Last Updated Nov 21 09 5:56 AM

Some sample questions from this category:

* Jacobsz never got to act out all of his plans for revenge however, because on June 4, 1629 the Batavia ran aground and sank on the Houtman Abrolhos. This reef formation is located about 60 km off the coast of which country?
* In command of the Batavia was upper-merchant Francisco Pelsaert. Adriaen Jacobsz, his enemy from an earlier voyage to the Dutch East Indies, was the skipper. Including Pelsaert and Jacobsz, how many people were aboard the Batavia when it left Texel?


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