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== History == [[File:Gothenberg Turtle Shell.jpg|thumb|168px|''Gothenburg's'' Turtle Shell Roll]] Holbourne Island became well known in 1875, when 18 survivors of the shipwreck {{SS|Gothenburg}} reached its shores. Four survivors arrived on a damaged port [[Lifeboat (shipboard)|lifeboat]] on 25 February, where they survived by eating raw bird's eggs and drinking rain water that had pooled in the island rocks. The following day, 14 survivors from a starboard lifeboat also landed. Because rescue was uncertain, the survivors [[engraving|engraved]] their names on the [[wiktionary:Concave|concave]] side of a large [[turtle]] shell, which is displayed in the [[South Australian Museum]], on North Terrace in Adelaide.<ref name=":0" /> On 28 February, 15 of them set off in the starboard lifeboat for an island about {{convert|20|mi|km}} away to the south, which seemed to be more in the track of ships. A rescue ship sent looking for survivors of ''Gothenburg'', picked up the group and took them safely to [[Bowen, Queensland|Bowen]]. The ship subsequently returned to Holbourne Island and rescued the three remaining survivors.<ref name=":0">McInnes, Allan (1982). Wreck of the Gothenburg: Read to a Meeting of the Society on 25 February 1982.</ref>
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