Scuttled warships, WWII casualties, colonial steamers and aircraft. Australia's wrecks range from shallow shore-accessible hulks to deep technical dives in Bass Strait and off the Great Barrier Reef.
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Norfolk Island · External Territory
Largely intact Westwind medevac jet at 48 m from the 2009 night ditching in which all six aboard survived.
Coral Sea · External Territory
The Coral Sea's largest atoll – a vast, rarely visited lagoon with historic wrecks and untouched reef.
Ashmore Reef · External Territory
A remote Commonwealth reef reserve with extraordinary biodiversity and traditional perahu wrecks.
A remote crescent reef with vast coral meadows, turtles and a Second World War Liberty ship wreck.
Engine block, propeller and scattered hull of a 1961 Italian freighter on coral terraces in very clear water, with a…
Cocos (Keeling) Islands · External Territory
Broken-up remains of a Sri Lankan asylum-seeker boat – engines with a hull section beneath – on a reef with two caves.
The 1803 wreck sites of Matthew Flinders' HMS Porpoise and the Cato, on a remote reef with outstanding visibility.
Christmas Island · External Territory
WWII history in 5–18 m: the broken-up Norwegian freighter Eidsvold, torpedoed in Flying Fish Cove in 1942, now…
Rugged, coral-covered reef at the exposed southern tip of Nepean Island – good for photography.
The collapsed remains of a Second World War Liberty ship on a remote Coral Sea reef edge.
A shallow, coral-covered 1945 freighter wreck spread across Bougainville's reef top and slope.
The remains of the First Fleet flagship, lost off Slaughter Bay in 1790 – Australia's most significant colonial…
Propellers, shafts, engine parts and shells of the WWI raider SMS Emden, beached after the 1914 Battle of Cocos – one…
Engines, propellers and a 600 m debris trail from a RAF Catalina that crashed landing in June 1945 – a shallow dive and…
An 1868 composite barque burnt and run aground in 1889, its iron-framed bow and midships still upright in 4 m – snorkel…
A 40 m keel and keelson line from an unidentified 19th-century North American ship – possibly the Gudden Barstow (1839)…
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