Fremantle - Not long ago, a message in the world's oldest bottle was found on the west coast of Australia by a woman named Tonya Ilman.
The message in the bottle is known to be dated June 12, 1886, which means his age has now reached 132 years.
Reported from News.com.au on Wednesday (7/3/2018), Tonya found a message sheet in the bottle on a beach near Wedge Island.
At that time, around the end of January, he and his husband were walking casually on the sand beach while enjoying the atmosphere of the afternoon, before then accidentally found an old bottle driven waves to the mainland.
"I thought the bottle was interesting to be a home display, and I picked it up," Tonya said.
When idly pulling the paper inside, Tonya suddenly realized that it is an ancient object of value.
The message in the gin bottle was written in German which was later translated by her husband, before being reported to the Western Australian Museum (WAM).
After being examined by some museum experts, allegedly related letters were thrown from a German merchant ship to search for the most efficient shipping route.
According to historical records held by the Australian National Museum Service, between 1864 and 1933, German ships were known to throw bottled letters into the oceans. This is done with the aim to map out the latest navigation findings to make the voyage route more efficient.
The contents of the messages contain the name of the ship, the date of throwing, and the coordinate point when throwing the related bottle.
In addition, the message in the bottle also asks anyone who finds, to return the bottle to the German Navy Observatory in Hamburg, or sent to the nearest German consulate.
Ross Anderson, from the Museum of Western Australia, uses the name listed, Paula, to find out the age of related messages.
He matched the name and handwriting form with German maritime voyage records. The results found that it was similar to the metorological record held by Captain Paula Witzschesen, a German merchant ship captain of Austrian descent.
Now, the message in the oldest bottle is stored at the Western Australian Maritime Museum in the city of Fremantl over the next two years.
Used to Study the Global Flow
Recently, bottle messages are still used in the application of oceanography as a tool for studying global currents.
Usually, researchers will release thousands of bottles containing messages to the ocean from the ship, they then wait for the people who find the bottle to contact them.
For example, the Drift Bottle Project started in 2000 by Eddy Carmack, a climate researcher at Canada's Institute of Ocean Science. The initial goal of the project was to study ocean currents around North America.
In the next 12 years, this project brings Carmack, his colleagues, and bottles around the world.
Recorded, about 6,400 bottles were removed by researchers, of which 264 pieces or about 4%, have been found.
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