A diving wonderland with a sordid history looks to the future.

Sixty kilometres off Western Australia’s coast, lies an archipelago of 122 islands, scattered through the Indian Ocean. Shipwrecks litter the waters…. human bones litter it’s soil.
It’s a treacherous place, but a beautiful one. There are no palm trees, hotels or restaurants. The howling southerly wind keeps the surface of the islands bare. But under the water…it’s a diver’s dream.
The islands have a deep history. It’s one of the first places in Australia seen by European explorers. 150 years before Captain Cook arrived, early European visitors marked the archipelago on their maps as a place of danger.
These are the Houtman Abrolhos Islands - a rugged paradise.
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fascinating

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good old Webbi Hayes, hey? the islands of angry ghosts.