David Whitley, courtesy of Traveller, 19 November 2015 where the title reads “The untouched Australian islands that played host to one of our darkest events”
White sand beaches and crystal-clear waters were once the scene of a bloody uprising. The Morning Reef is dazzlingly pretty. From the air, it’s a multicoloured carpet of deep blues, vivid greens and everything in between. In the middle of it, peeking just far enough above the water to count as a landmass, is what looks like a triangle with added bull horns. That tiny speck is Beacon Island. And it was the epicentre of one of the darkest, but most remarkable, stories in Australian history. It may look calm and unthreatening now, but in 1629, dozens of people were murdered there by a rampaging band of shipwrecked mutineers.Beacon Island is one of the Houtman-Abrolhos, an archipelago of 122 islands lying about 60 kilometres off the coast of Geraldton in Western Australia. No one lives there permanently, although rock lobster fishermen make temporary bases on many of the islands during the fishing season.
NEW YORK—UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who will be on an official three-day visit beginning 
