Commonwealth of Australia
Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976
Provisional Declaration of a Historic Shipwreck and of Historic Relics
I, Nigel Routh, Delegate of the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, being of the opinion that the articles described in Schedule 1 appear to be the remains of a ship located in Australian waters or waters above the continental shelf of Australia, and that they may be of historic significance, in that they may be the remains of the Hawthorn, pursuant to subsection 6(1) of the Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976, hereby provisionally declare the articles described in Schedule 1 to be a historic shipwreck.
Being of the opinion that the articles described in Schedule 2 may have been associated with a ship, and that those articles may be of historic significance, in that they may be articles associated with the remains of the Hawthorn, pursuant to subsection 6(2) of the Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976, I hereby provisionally declare the articles described in Schedule 2 to be historic relics.
Schedule 1 – Description of articles | |
Description | Located at or about |
All remains of a wooden hulled vessel. | 37° 54' 43" S Latitude 140° 23' 43" E longitude as defined using WGS84 datum. |
Schedule 2 – Description of historic relics |
(a) All man-made articles and human remains located inside the articles described in Schedule 1; (b) All man-made articles attached to the articles described in Schedule 1; and (c) All man-made articles and human remains located on the seabed or in the subsoil, in Australian waters or waters above the continental shelf of Australia and within a radius of 797 metres of the articles described in Schedule 1. |
Dated this 18 day of January 2013
[Signed]
Nigel Routh
Delegate of the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities.