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Scuttled, But Not Yet Abandoned: The Genesis and Evolution of Antipodean Studies on the Australian West Coast

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In the late 1970s, with an overarching departmental focus on bullion-carrying East-India ships and former slave traders, it fell to the most inexperienced and unqualified of the maritime archaeologists then present in Western Australia to examine and manage a suite of seemingly mundane abandoned nineteenth and twentieth century vessels in a ship graveyard. The recognition of the abandoned and recently scuttled hulk is now such that it occupies an important place amongst shipwrecks having an attraction, significance, and worth that is now often far beyond its former service value. This work first examines the unlikely genesis of what has since become a mainstream study and concludes with an overview of the present situation.

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  1. Western Australian Museum Shipwreck Galleries, Western Australian Museum, Victoria Quay, 6160, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia

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  1. Program in Maritime Studies, History and Coastal Resources Management, East Carolina University, E 5TH ST, Greenville, 27858, North Carolina, USA

    Nathan Richards

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    Sami Kay Seeb

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McCarthy, M. (2013). Scuttled, But Not Yet Abandoned: The Genesis and Evolution of Antipodean Studies on the Australian West Coast. In: Richards, N., Seeb, S. (eds) The Archaeology of Watercraft Abandonment. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7342-8_2

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