Maritime Archaeology

Extension of Historic Shipwrecks Protection

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Author: Heritage Branch, Department of the Environment (Cwlth) The Minister, the Hon Josh Frydenberg MP, has announced that, this year, an extension to the current protection afforded only to shipwrecks, plane wrecks, Indigenous heritage sites and other underwater cultural sites, under the Historic Shipwrecks Act (1976), will be made under a new Underwater Cultural Heritage […]

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Maritime History Prize Nominations Open

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Originally posted on the ANMM website The Australian National Maritime Museum, with the Australian Association for Maritime History have opened nominations for two maritime history prizes. The major prize is named in honour of the late Professor Frank Broeze (1945–2001) of the University of Western Australia, who has been called the pre-eminent maritime historian of

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