Antarctic researchers send an SOS to the world: Who wrote this message in a bottle?
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An Antarctic research station is asking for help after finding a message in a bottle with an indecipherable email address.
The researchers are part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition based at the country's longest-running research station on Macquarie Island.
Back in the summer, three staff were walking one of the island's beaches when they found a bottle containing a faded message. After five months with no physical contact with the rest of the planet, bar email, this caused the cabin-fever-suffering Aussies a lot of excitement. Station medic Dr Kate Kloza provided some forceps which got the paper out of the bottle without smashing the glass. But the paper appeared to be completely blank.
