Since the signing of the 1972 agreement a number of research projects have been organised and carried out. These range from the initial excavation of the four VOC shipwrecks and their land sites and the lengthy restoration of ANCODS artefacts to the organisation of bilateral conferences on Australian-Dutch maritime links.

It is the aim of ANCODS and its associated institutions to encourage future projects by making the ANCODS database available online on this Web site.

Past and present ANCODS research will be presented on this page.

Research projects

'Bytes of Wonder' Defining our Future Heritage. The Digitisation of Museums' Collections in the Netherlands. Based on a case study of the digitisation of the Dutch ANCODS collection at the Scheepvaartmuseum and Geldmuseum. 2007-2009.
Trilce Navarrete and Prof. John Mackenzie Owen, Universiteit van Amsterdam.

Comparative geological analysis of samples of the Batavia sandstone with samples from German quarries. Published in Bulletin of the Australasian Institute of Maritime Archaeology. 2005.
Dr Jutta Weber and Dr Jochen Lepper.

Re-publication of the 1647 Jansz edition of Ongeluckige voyagie, van 't schip Batavia, nae de Oost-Indien published in Amsterdam and based on Pelsaert's journals. Includes translation and commentary. 1994.
The Australian National Maritime Museum.

Joint research on the archaeology, the history and the craft skills involved in the building of 17th-century vessels. 1985-1995.
Bataviawerf Lelystad and the Western Australian Maritime Museum.

Registration of ANCODS artefacts. These were published in ANCODS catalogues and reports in 1982, 1983, 1985, 1991 & 2002.
Department of Maritime Archaeology, Western Australian Maritime Museum.

Survey and excavation of the Zeewijk shipwreck and related land sites. Subsequent restoration of recovered material. Publication of results. 1974-1977.
Hugh Edwards, Jeremy Green, Catharine Ingelman-Sundberg, and others, the Western Australian Maritime Museum.

Survey and excavation of the Zuytdorp shipwreck and related land sites. Subsequent restoration of recovered material. Publication of results. 1972-2002.
Jeremy Green, Geoff Kimpton, Michael McCarthy; also Sandra Bowler, Kate Morse, Myra Stanbury, Fiona Weaver and others, the Western Australian Maritime Museum.

Survey and excavation of the Batavia shipwreck and related land sites. Subsequent restoration of recovered material. Publication of results. 1972-2001.
Martin Gibbs, Jeremy Green, Hugh Edwards, David Franklin, Alisdair Paterson, and others, the Western Australian Maritime Museum.

Survey and excavation of the Vergulde Draeck shipwreck and related land sites. Subsequent restoration of recovered material. Publication of results. 1972-1983.
Jeremy Green and others, the Western Australian Maritime Museum.

Conferences

Dutch connections: 400 years of Australian-Dutch maritime links 1606-2006, 12-16 May 2006. Sydney and Fremantle.
Organised by the Australian National Maritime Museum and the Western Australian Maritime Museum, the symposium featured speakers from Australia and the Netherlands. Conference proceedings were published in 2006.

The ANCODS Colloquium: the Australia-Netherlands Colloquium on Maritime Archaeology and Maritime History, 7-9 January 1997. Fremantle.
Organised by the Western Australian Maritime Museum, the colloquium featured speakers from Australia, the Netherlands and Sri Lanka. Conference proceedings were published in 1998.

Other projects

Creation of ANCODS Web site, 2007
Centre for International Heritage activities with participating ANCODS repositories.

Hosting of Batavia replica at Darling Harbour for one year (open to visitors), 2000 Bataviawerf Lelystad and the Australian National Maritime Museum.

Visit of the Batavia sloop replica to Perth, 1989
Bataviawerf Lelystad and the Western Australian Maritime Museum.

Batavia artefacts
Images courtesy
WA Maritime Museum