was destroyed by an Australian cruiser at Direction
Island in the Keeling group of islands in the far eastern
Indian Ocean. The ship's crew was taken prisoner by
the Australians and British but an Emden landing party
managed to avoid capture and, in fact, made it back to
Germany, with some Turkish help in the Arabian
peninsula:
Emden escape click here for the detailed story.
More than 100 years later, TNT happened upon this
news item about the current trash-filled status of
the Keeling group of islands:
plastic paradise click here for the CNN story.
Giving new meaning to the word 'remote'...but
not too remote for plastic.
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