The Koning William de Tweede was an 800-ton ship that was sailing near Robe, South Australia when it sank in June 1857.

Archaeologists found an 800-ton Dutch merchant vessel lost in 1857 off the coast of South Australia, offering a rare look into the region’s maritime trade history.

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and it is the only known historic shipwreck event to have occurred on that stretch of Long Beach. Sixteen crew members were drowned when the ship sank in a storm off Robe, in South Australia's ...

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Image: Ruud Stelten. About 16,000 Chinese miners arrived at Robe’s port between the 1850s and 60s to avoid a Victorian tax imposed on immigrants arriving by sea, to then walk the 400km to Ballarat.