Date28-Aug-1949
TypeUnprovoked
CountryAUSTRALIA
LocationYorkey’s Knob Beach near Cairns
ActivitySwimming
InjuryFATAL, right leg, thigh & fingers lacerated
VictimJames Howard, Male, 34 years old
Time13h20
SourceG.P. Whitley (1951), p.194, cites Daily Telegraph (Sydney), 8/29/1949; V.M. Coppleson (1958), pp.88 & 239
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