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Who stopped the massacre run by mutineer Jeronimus Cornelisz after the Batavia wrecked off Australia in 1629?
Hayes's men won the race to warn the returning rescue ship. Cornelisz was hanged on the islands after murdering some 110-125 people; his coral fort is the oldest standing European structure in Australia.
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The Wreck of the Batavia in 1629 and the Massacre Its Mutineers Ran on a Desert Island The Dutch East India ship Batavia wrecked on the Houtman Abrolhos islands off Western Australia on 4 June 1629. While the commander sailed an open boat to Java for rescue, the apothecary Jeronimus Cornelisz established a reign of terror among the roughly 200 survivors, murdering some 110-125 men, women, and children before soldiers he had marooned fought back.
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