Four 170-year-old shipwrecks have been found on an isolated reef off Queensland’s far north coast
Divers at Kenn Reefs, 520 kilometres north-east of Bundaberg, found this wreck between six to 10 metres of water Source: Twitter
Four 19th-century shipwrecks have been discovered off Queensland’s coast.
Archaeologists from the Australian National Maritime Museum found the shipwrecks during a week-long expedition of the Coral Sea.
If you keen to find out more about the Coral Sea shipwrecks, check out curator James Hunter on @ABC_NewsRadio 👉 https://t.co/RbYFBcjzJz pic.twitter.com/rfERmmhzmS
— Australian National Maritime Museum (@seamuseum_) January 23, 2017
They had been searching for the remains of eight ships known to have sunk at Kenn Reef, more than 500km off the mainland, during the mid-1800s.
– AAP
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