Take a voyage of discovery with Chris Taylor as he visits the stone ruins on Western Australia's remote West Wallabi Island - the oldest structures built by Europeans in Australia - which tell a tale of mutiny and murder. Built as a fort in 1629 by survivors of the shipwrecked Dutch merchant ship Batavia, the National Heritage-listed shipwreck site provides a lasting memorial to the treachery of under-merchant Jeronimus Cornelisz, who had conspired to mutiny and steal the treasure-laden ship before it struck a reef.
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