157-Year-Old Shipwreck Hull in Australia Transforms Into ‘Floating Forest’ With Mangrove Trees

157-Year-Old Shipwreck Hull in Australia Transforms Into ‘Floating Forest’ With Mangrove Trees
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Michael Wing
Michael Wing
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The weathered husk of a 19th-century steamship from Scotland found its resting place grounded off the coast of Magnetic Island in northeast Australia. Its deteriorated carcass remains there to this day.

Over the decades, the remains of the ship, called the SS City of Adelaide, gradually merged with the ocean floor and filled up with deposits of silt, its bulwarks protruding above the surface like an ancient skeleton.

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