Recently, a woman named Tonya & middot; illiman found a floating bottle containing a 132 year old paper note on the beach north of wedge Island, Australia. This place is about 112 miles north of Perth. What's the matter with this old drift bottle?
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"I was walking on the beach with my friend Grace, and then I saw a bulge on the beach. Then I went to see it. I found it looked like an old bottle, and picked it up. At that time, I thought it would be very beautiful if it was put in my bookcase.". '
The letter means that it was thrown into the sea 950 kilometers away from the coast of Western Australia from the German sailboat Paula on June 12, 1886.
She went on: 'when my son's girlfriend took the sand out of the bottle, she found a note hidden in it. At that time, the note was a little wet, so we wanted to take it home and dry it to see the specific information above. 'when she got home and dried it, Tonya's husband kept studying the note. He found that many of the words on it were printed, and there were also German handwriting, which said June 12, 1886 and so on.
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The bottle found 132 years later is the oldest floating bottle in the world. The second ancient bottle is 108 years ago. The aylmans have lent their findings to the Western Australian Museum for two years.
The bottle, which was supposed to have been dropped from a seagoing ship called Paula, was part of a bottle experiment when Germany was studying currents and finding more efficient trade routes.
About thousands of bottles were thrown into the sea from the ship, while the whole research work on bottles in Germany lasted from 1864 to 1933, that is to say, almost one bottle a day. On the note was the date and coordinates written by the ship's captain, as well as the port of departure and the entire route.
Interestingly, on the back of this note, it also said: 'if you find this note, please write down your specific time and location at that time, and return this note to the German Naval Observatory in Hanseatic free city (northern German port city) in Hamburg or the German Consulate nearby. '
Finally, the couple took the bottle to the Museum of Western Australia, where experts confirmed that it was a Dutch gin bottle in the middle and late 19th century. This note is also believed to be on 19th century paper. Of course, it is also from the 'Paula' boat's drift bottle, and its route is exactly the same, the time is 1886.