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06/03/2018 World's oldest message in a bottle found in Western Australia

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World's oldest known message in a bottle discovered in Australia

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What did the world's oldest message in a bottle say?

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Daily Scuba News - The Oldest Message In A Bottle Has Been Found

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World’s oldest message-in-a-bottle found

A couple walking on a beach in Western Australia discovered a bottled message that had been launched in 1886 from the German ship Paula conducting drift bottle experiments for the German Naval Observatory. The message's authenticity was corroborated through the ship captain's original Meteorological Journal.
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