PLOT c/TSWP-QH · version 1 of 1

The writer reports a basking shark, 12 ft 11 in long, caught in fishermen's nets in Hobson's Bay off Williamstown on 2 May 1902.

On the 2nd May last a large shark was captured in Hobson's Bay, off Williamstown, which was quite unknown to any of the fisher- men and others who saw it. It was captured through becoming entangled in the nets of some local fishermen, which it damaged considerably, and unfortunately bruised itself a good deal in its powerful struggles to escape. Its captors immediately disembowelled it, and had it conveyed to the city for exhibition purposes, where it was secured for the Museum. It proved to be a medium-sized male specimen of the Basking Shark, Cetorhinus maximus, Gunner, and measured a total length of 1 2 feet 1 1 inches. This species, which is the only one of the genus, is a very rare visitor to AustraliaHistorical passage

About Williamstown

Kind

Reported by source

Who said it

Reported by community

Period

1902

Checked

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Open questions

None open

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Where it says so

The Victorian naturalist, v.19, 1902-1903 (on archive.org) (Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria) · View in PLOT — victoriannatural19fiel, leaf 76, printed page not recorded

How they know

accounts-core@0.1.0: screen_passage@1, extract_passage@1 (claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session)); locator victoriannatural19fiel, leaf 76, printed page not recorded

Limitations

A writer's account: context and a reason to look again, never a measurement. The writer's words for the place are kept; silence elsewhere is not absence.

Framework targets

none linked

Editions

october-26th-release

Cite as: PLOT record c/TSWP-QH v1, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria (1902), reported by source

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