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SS Australasia

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Australasia
Australasia

The Australasia was a wooden-hulled American Great Lakes freighter that served on the Great Lakes of North America between her construction in 1884 to her burning and sinking in 1896. On October 18, 1896, while loaded with coal, the Australasia sank in Lake Michigan near the town of Sevastopol, Door County, Wisconsin, United States, after burning off Cana Island. On July 3, 2013, the wreck of the Australasia was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

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SS Australasia
Beach Access, Town of Sevastopol

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N 44.92 ° E -87.1855 °
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Town of Sevastopol
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