WHALE STRANDINGS IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND

Four new impacts from small meteoroids. After going through historical entries for the last 180 years I am going to do a review of the area and then calculate how many are likely to hit over land and sea in a year within Australia and the Southern Ocean. They might not be Wolfe Crater forming; however, you wouldn't want to be under them or anywhere in the local area for that matter.

1939, January 25-31, Queensland, Cape Hillsborough, 30km north of Mackay. METEOR IMPACT, A fishing party discovered a hole 1 foot deep with a circumference of 4 feet; with a substance resembling molten quartz scattered within 15 feet of the impact. Scientists examined the area and said it was a meteor strike.

1944, January 23, Victoria, METEOR IMPACT, Tremor, hissing noise, thunder, air-blast and considerable echo. A meteor came over the suburbs of Melbourne exploding and shaking houses in Alphington, Camberwell and Kew. It left a smell of cordite in the air. After travelling SWW, witnesses said it struck the water in Port Phillip Bay off Rosebud West after travelling 60 km.

1944, April 26, New South Wales, Maclean, AIR BURST, three men fishing from a boat in the Clarence River, two of whom were standing up at the time, were thrown to the floor of the boat when a meteoroid exploded above them. It caused a loud detonation that disturbed the fish to try and flee the water.  

1951, October 5, Victoria, Melbourne METEOR IMPACT.  A meteor, shot over the heads of a man and his young son fishing in the Barwon River. The fireball crashed into the river with a roar. The river in the vicinity momentarily rose four feet above normal level, 18-inch waves passed up and down the river, and steam rose 25 feet into the air.

1920s-1930s maybe earlier. New South Wales, Woodford Island, Clarence River, METEOR IMPACT, Struck a hill on the Island causing considerable sparks to fly.