NEW :

• Our Timescope is working: read the logs or you can view the movies
  We have new material from the Batavia, and a message for ANMRC colleagues.
• Visit our web gallery to see our latest assistants. They are helping us with the Spice Island project.
• Meet our ANMRC trainees

Did you know that the Dutch were the first Europeans to visit Australia?
Our trainee marine archaeologists are researching the wreck of the Dutch ship 'Batavia' off the coast of Western Australia in 1629.

• Dutch shipwrecks on the Australian coast
• Marine archaeology
• Shipbuilding in the 17th & 18th centuries
• The Dutch spice trade
• A sailor's life
• Dutch life in the 17th & 18th centuries

You can read our Weblog at: anmrc.blogspot.com