Australia’s Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle isn’t the only place where planes and ships go down. Believers say disappearances in the Bass Strait Triangle are caused by just about everything, from sea monsters and giant squid to alien abductions and alternate dimensions.

The first reported disappearance over what’s known as the Bass Strait Triangle occurred in 1920 when a military Airco DH. 9A went down while searching for a missing ship.

On 19 October 1934, the Miss Hobart airliner went missing on a flight from Launceston to Melbourne. The aircraft, carrying nine passengers and two pilots, was last heard from at 10.20am near Wilson’s Promontory. During World War Two, several aircraft were lost during low-level bombing practice in the Bass Strait.

One of the most controversial disappearances was that of Brenda Hean in September 1972. Hean, a well-known environmentalist, had taken off from Canberra in a 1930s Tiger Moth to lobby against the flooding of Lake Pedder. She and her pilot were never seen again.