Maritime History
Currie is a rural residential locality in the local government area (LGA) of King Island in the North-west and west LGA region of Tasmania. The 2021 census recorded a population of 659. It is the largest township on, and is the administrative centre of, King Island, at the western entrance to Bass Strait.
List of maritime disasters in the 20th century.
1950 USS Missouri grounding.
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