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Childer's Cove, Victoria
© 1992 Christine Krieg
Childers Cove is one
of the many magnificent wild beaches found along the infamous Shipwreck
Coast, in western Victoria. Stunning limestone cliffs and sentinels
carved by relentless wind and waves rise straight out of the sea.
Unpredictable and treacherous weather, often sweeping in directly
from Antartica, is the trademark of this shoreline. In January
1839 a coastal trader named Children sailing from Launceston, Tasmania
blew off course and struck a reef at the mouth of Childers
Cove. Seventeen people drowned.
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