Canberra, May 8 -- Researchers have located the shipwreck of Koning Willem de Tweede, a 19th-century Dutch merchant vessel lost in 1857 off the coast of South Australia, the Australian National Maritime Museum has revealed.
The 800-ton Dutch vessel, which played a role in the movement of Chinese migrants during Australia's gold rush era, had recently disembarked more than 400 Chinese miners bound for Victoria's goldfields when it sank in Guichen Bay near the town of Robe in South Australia, a press release of the museum said on Wednesday.
Sixteen of the 25 crew members drowned and were buried in the dunes of Long Beach, Robe, it said.
Using marine magnetometers and underwater metal detectors, the team identified iron components believe...