Madness, murder and rape on the Batavia: new theory on Australia’s most horrific shipwreck
- Posted on May 5, 2025
- By The Guardian
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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
