Nypost.com reports that scientists discover hundreds of skeletons on Australia’s “Murder Island” in the following story
“Beneath the sand of this picturesque island chain lies a brutal and bloody past that’s still being unearthed.
Scientists are still discovering full skeletons that lay buried in the little-known “Murder Island” almost 400 years after Australia’s first and biggest mass murder, 60 Minutes reports.
The mutiny and massacre that occurred on the Dutch sailing ship the Batavia in 1629 is Australia’s bloodiest shipwreck.
After making her way south, the Batavia struck a reef 25 miles off the coast of Western Australia near the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, a chain of 122 islands in the Indian Ocean.
About 40 people drowned trying to make it to land. But those who survived the swim to nearby Beacon Island — later named Batavia’s Graveyard — were in for worse.
As they waited to be rescued, 125 men, women and children were slaughtered by mutineers over three months. Some women were kept alive to be repeatedly raped and tortured. The incident has been likened to a real-life “Lord of the Flies.”
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