WA Shipwrecks Museum
Maritime museum with shipwreck relics and treasure coins salvaged from Dutch trading ships.
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About this audio guide
The WA Shipwrecks Museum in Fremantle centers this guide on the silver that Dutch East India Company ships carried as trading capital, and on the fight over who got to keep it after the ships sank. It follows the seventeenth-century wreck of the Batavia on Morning Reef, the divers who rediscovered its coins in the nineteen sixties, and a rival treasure hunter whose lawsuit over a different Dutch wreck reshaped who owns Australia's shipwrecks. Look for the single coin displayed near the Batavia's reconstructed stern.
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