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The Last Thing the Ocean Returned: One Lifebelt, No Answers
The Last Thing the Ocean Returned: One Lifebelt, No Answers
A single cork lifebelt washed up in the Tasman Sea six months after the ship Aurora vanished on a routine coal run between Newcastle and Iquique, with no wreckage, no bodies and no note - so how could a vessel that once rammed pack ice and rescued stranded Arctic parties simply disappear? What does the engraved wine bottle found ten years later, depicting Aurora and eight names on Midwinter's Day 1912, tell us that the ocean did not?
In this episode, we lay out the known timeline of Aurora from her 1876 launch in Dundee to her…
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