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Good Reading : March 2013
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Comprising 97 blocks weighing over 36 tonnes, these too were conserved at the museum. Batavia is the only post-medieval shipwreck that has been archaeologically excavated. After a number of years of conservation treatment, the hull’s remains were rebuilt in the museum’s Shipwreck Galleries in Fremantle, providing the centrepiece for the Batavia display. The section is the stern quarter of the port side of the ship up to the top of the first gun deck and includes the transom and sternpost. The portico was reconstructed and is on display, along with many other original objects, in the museum in Geraldton. Other than a two-volume archaeological report, there have been many popular books, films and an opera about the Batavia story. Part of the museum’s brief is making the results of the excavation, conservation and research available via exhibitions, archaeological and other reports, articles, books, school projects, films and websites. Shipwrecks of Australia’s West Coast !edited by M McCarthy is published by " " Western Australian Museum Publications. 51 Beacon Island looking towards the Batavia site, which is at the centre of the outlying reef, just beyond the white water. (Photo: Patrick Baker)
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