A group of mutineers, with Jeronimus Cornelisz as their leader, had murdered a total of 125 men, women and children. After a short battle the mutineers were captured. The worst offenders were executed on the island after a short trial. The lesser offenders were taken back to Batavia to be trailed. In Batavia most of them were executed, even after already having received punishment like flogging, keelhauling and being dropped from the yard arm.
Commander Pelsaert died in the following year, leaving behind his journal of the events. This journal, together with a book written in the years after the incident, Ongeluckige voyagie van 't schip Batavia, made it possible to rediscover the wreck. Journalist Hugh Edwards published an account of the wrecking and the discovery of the wreck by Dave Johnson, Max and Gerard Cramer and Greg Allen, under the name Island of Angry Ghosts.
In 1972 the Netherlands transferred all rights to Dutch shipwrecks on the australian coasts to Australia. Various items, including human remains, which were excavated are now on display in a museum in Freemantle?, Australia.
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