Australia has signed a research agreement with the Netherlands that acknowledges the role Dutch mariners played in mapping the country’s coast, more than 160 years before the arrival of British explorer James Cook.
The agreement was signed at the National Library in Canberra on 15 September.
It commits both counties to “manage and research” Dutch shipwrecks in Australian coastal waters as part of a United Nations treaty to protect underwater cultural heritage.
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