Shipwreck Databases Western Australian Museum

Zeewijk 2014: georeferencing a 36-year-old survey plan

Author/s Green, J.N.

Year of publication 2014

Report Number: No. 309

In the late 1970s the Western Australian Museum’s Department of Maritime Archaeology conducted a series of expeditions, under the direction of Caterina Ingleman-Sundberg, to investigate the Dutch East India Company (VOC) Zeewijk (1727) wreck site, on Half Moon Reef in the Pelsaert (Southern) Group of the Houtman Abrolhos. A plan was produced of the survey, but as the work took place before the advent of GPS it has not been possible to obtain georgaphical coordinates of the survey. This report describes the georeferencing of the survey in 2014.