Oldest message in a bottle found in WA

The world's oldest known message in a bottle has been found half-buried at a West Australian beach nearly 132 years after it was tossed overboard into the Indian Ocean.

The dark inexperienced glass bottle, that measured but 9 inches long and 3 inches wide, was found by Tonya Illman close to Wedge Island, one hundred eighty kilometres north of state capital, in January.

It had been flung from the German sailing sailing ship Paula in 1886 as a part of a 69-year official experiment to raised perceive world ocean currents and realize quicker, a lot of economical shipping routes.

A report free by the Australian state depository details however the bottle was found and what its healthy message reveals concerning science and history.

According to a museum press release on Tuesday, Ms Illman and a friend were walking along the dunes when she saw it near where her son's car had become bogged in soft sand.

"It just looked like a lovely old bottle so I picked it up thinking it might look good in my bookcase," she said.

"My son's girlfriend was the one who discovered the note when she went to tip the sand out. The note was damp, rolled tightly and wrapped with string. We took it home and dried it out, and when we opened it we saw it was a printed form, in German, with very faint German handwriting on it."