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The World's Oldest Message in a Bottle

The World's Oldest Message in a Bottle

The story behind how a message in a bottle from the 1800s was discovered on the shore of western Australia over a hundred years later.

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Daniel Ganninger
Jan 16, 2025
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A message in a bottle washed up on the shore of Wedge Island on the western coast of Australia and was found on January 21, 2018. While a message in a bottle with an actual note inside would be a unique find, what made this one special was how old the message, and the bottle, were.

A Perth, Australia, resident named Tonya Illman found t…

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