CONDON.

The West Australian, Perth, 12 January, 1939.

Koombana Disappears.

The steamer Koombana went down

off Condon with all hands during a

willy-willy which raged in the vicinity

of Cossack from March 16 to 21, 1912.

It is singularly interesting that the author of this report, circa 1939, chose Condon as the frame of reference for where the Koombana went down. Captain Upjohn's oil patch coordinates are exactly 50 miles almost due north of Condon. The two rockets seen by drover Olive were roughly in the vicinity of 22 miles N.N.E. of Condon and that site is merely 5 miles from the dreaded Amphinome Shoals which received attention when the steamer Bambra ran into an object, circa 1922.

Note: Cossack, 129 n miles to the southwest of Condon does not even make it onto this image.

Courtesy Trove and Google Earth.

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