The recent Christmas Island shipwreck tragedy brings to mind the hundreds of ships wrecked on islands in Bass Strait: King Island and Phillip Island in particular, because we've lived on both islands.
Four hundred people died when the emigrant ship Cataraqui crashed into submerged rocks on the southwest corner of King Island, in 1845. The coastline of the sheep property where we lived was strewn with dead bodies. As a result of the Cataraqui tragedy 165 years ago, a heavy feeling of foreboding hangs over this stunningly beautiful coastline. My heart goes out to all those people involved in the recent Christmas Island shipwreck.
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