Australian National Shipwreck Database
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The Australian National Shipwreck Database is an online, searchable database of over 7,000 known shipwreck
s around the coast of Australia
. Originally developed by the Australasian Institute of Maritime Archaeology, it is now maintained by the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts.
Shipwreck
A shipwreck is what remains of a ship that has wrecked, either sunk or beached. Whatever the cause, a sunken ship or a wrecked ship is a physical example of the event: this explains why the two concepts are often overlapping in English....
s around the coast of Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. Originally developed by the Australasian Institute of Maritime Archaeology, it is now maintained by the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts.