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Archaeologists find Mermaid
The Australian National Maritime Museum archaeologists are now convinced they have located the site where the Mermaid ran aground and broke up on the Great Barrier Reef in 1829.

Searchers announced they had found an anchor and other metal fittings which appeared to be from the Mermaid.

Surveying the site on Flora Reef, some 20 km out from Cairns, they have found further metallic objects including heavy copper sheathing which they are convinced came from the ship's hull.

"We're now certain this is a discovery of major historical importance," the leader of the museum team, curator and maritime archaeologist Kieran Hosty, said today.

"There have been several attempts to find this site over the past 40 years or so, but it's always proved elusive.

"There's a sense of elation here now."

 
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