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A German sailor's note from 1886 washed up in Western Australia. The figure is taken from Western Australian Museum, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.

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A message in a bottle surfaced after 132 years

A German sailor's note from 1886 washed up in Western Australia The bottle was found in January 2018 on a beach near Wedge Island, north of Perth, and the note inside was dated 12 June 1886 and thrown from the German ship Paula. It was one of thousands dropped as part of an ocean current experiment by the German Naval Observatory. The find was authenticated by the Western Australian Museum, which matched the handwriting and the ship's log. It sits in Mondo's records & extremes collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: A German sailor's note from 1886 washed up in Western Australia. The figure is taken from Western Australian Museum, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a records & extremes fact?: Yes. It sits on the Records & Extremes shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.