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Uncovering our fascinating shipwreck history

Community Penny Hoffmann Premium Content Subscriber only Australia’s coast is the final resting place of more than 11,000 shipwrecks – roughly one wreck for every three kilometres of coastline. Striking the Great Barrier Reef’s Myrmidon Reef in 1989 was Foam, a British topsail schooner. Foam was on its way to the South Island Seas. Sovereign was a paddle steamer from Moreton Island which was bound for Sydney when it was swamped by waves in the treacherous South Passage Bar, Moreton Bay, in 1847. Aboriginal men risked their lives and rescued 10 people while the remaining 44 passengers and crew perished. Foam and Sovereign are just two of the 14 “most compelling” shipwreck stories that were selected from the nominations of 46 Australian Maritime Museums and Heritage institutions.

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The British Museum s ancient Greek treasures arrive in Australia and New Zealand Ancient Greeks: Athletes, Warrior, Heroes

45 seconds ago The British Museum’s ancient Greek treasures arrive in Australia and New Zealand “Ancient Greeks: Athletes, Warrior, Heroes” The exhibition entitled “Ancient Greeks: Athletes, Warriors, Heroes” will take place at the West Australian State Museum in June and will head to the National Museum of Australia (NMA) in Canberra from December 17 across the Tasman Sea. Head to Auckland. , New Zealand in 2022. Logistical challenges in bringing international exhibitions to Australia due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, prompted the rescheduling of  Ancient Greeks. The highly anticipated  Ancient Greeks exhibition will now come to the Australasian region in 2021, as part of a partnership between the British Museum, the National Museum of Australia, the Western Australian Museum, and the Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum.

British Museum Sends Greek Masterpieces to Australian Exhibition

One of the Hellenistic busts currently exhibited in the British Museum. Credit: Nic McPhee/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 2.0The British Museum has partnered with multiple museums in Australia to bring over enough objects to display an Ancient Greek exhibit in the Southern Hemisphere.The exhibition, named Ancient Greeks: Athletes, Warriors and Heroes from the British Museum, will arrive…

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