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Message in a Bottle

URL: http://mobileaudience.blogspot.com/2005/01/message-in-bottle.html
from ramsgatetothechathamislands.co.uk



In a perfectly Quixotic gesture, on 25th May 2004, fifty bottles were released into the sea off the south east coast of England near Ramsgate Maritime Museum, Kent.

The intended destination of the bottles is The Chatham Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. The islands, which are 800km east of mainland New Zealand, are the nearest inhabited land to the precise location on the exact opposite side of the world to Ramsgate Maritime Museum.

Each bottle contains a message from residents of Ramsgate to the residents of the Chatham Islands, a pencil, an instruction leaflet for replies, as well as details of the project website.

Several of the bottles are being tracked automatically using GPS technology and are programmed to send their longitude and latitude coordinates back to Ramsgate every hour-maps are created on the site to show progress across the oceans.

Originally from Mobile Audience, ReBlogged by Gavin on Jan 27, 2005 at 09:29 AM

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