In 2006, during the 400-year celebrations in Sydney which were held to commemorate the Dutch landing of Janszoon on the Cape York Peninsula, the Dutch Minister for Education, Culture and Science announced that the Netherlands government repatriated its part of the ANCODS collection on 9th November 2010. This was in line with the first 1997 resolution concerning modern archaeological practice of non-dispersal of collections.

Similarly, the Australian ANCODS collection is being audited at the Western Australian Museum at the moment. Once this process is complete it will be combined with the Dutch database.

Please search through the ANCODS database publicly that is available online through this Web site.

Cameo from Batavia
Image courtesy
WA Maritime Museum