Australia protects its shipwrecks, sunken aircraft and other types of underwater heritage and their associated artefacts through the Underwater Cultural Heritage Act 2018, which is administered in collaboration between the Commonwealth and the States, Northern Territory and Norfolk Island.
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On this day in 1911, the single screw steamer SS Yongala was bound for Townsville. The ship left Mackay and steamed into a late-season cyclone. The Yongala succumbed to the storm in waters off Cape…
The discovery of two large ship propellers in Darwin Harbour has offered a new interpretation of the sinking of USS Peary in 1942. These new artefacts are automatically protected by the Commonwealth…