MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The oldest known message in a bottle was found on
an Australian beach 132 years after being thrown from a German ship in
the Indian Ocean as part of an experiment to track currents, experts
said. The Dutch gin bottle, with no cork or top, was spotted by Tonya
Illman in January in remote sand dunes 180 km (112 miles)north of Perth,
the capital of Western Australia state. Inside, her family discovered a
note tightly rolled up and tied with string, carrying the date June 12,
1886, and the name of the ship, Paula. “We took it home and dried it
out, and when we opened it, we saw it was a printed form, in German,
with very faint German handwriting,” Illman said. Her husband searched
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