Date08-Mar-1920
TypeUnprovoked
CountryAUSTRALIA
LocationBetween Bay Rock & Magnetic Island, Cleveland Bay
ActivityBoat capsized, swimming to shore
InjuryTossed in air by shark, sustained abrasions
VictimAlfred Burgess, Male, 20 years old
SourceH. Miller (1920); V.M. Coppleson Q.2.(1933); V.M. Coppleson (1958), pp.43, 44, 237; A. Sharpe, p.24
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