130-year-old message found in bottle on Australian island beach

The world’s oldest known message in a bottle has been found – more than 130 years after it was tossed into the Indian Ocean. Sailors on board the German boat Paula placed a scroll in a gin bottle as they made their way from Cardiff to Makassar in Indonesia as part of an experiment looking at ocean currents. It is thought the bottle washed up on Wedge Island, north of Perth, Western Australia, within a year of being jettisoned and was buried in damp sand which helped to preserve its contents. Tonya Illman, who found the bottle on January 21, said: “It just looked like a lovely old bottle so I picked it up thinking it might look good in my bookcase. “My son’s girlfriend was the one who discovered.

 Source:  Yahoo News