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Photos du journal - Vallarta Botanical Gardens AC. Oh Myyy - Photos du journal. ScienceAlert - Photos du journal. New Species Of River Dolphin Discovered In Brazil (PHOTOS) UberFacts : Femme Fatale Fireflies... 54-Year-Old Message in a Bottle Found in Canadian Arctic. In 1959, Paul T. Walker, an American glaciologist, buried a message in a bottle under a pile of rocks on Ward Hunt Island, in the northernmost part of the Canadian Arctic. Fifty-four years later, researchers who set out to collect microbes on the remote island stumbled upon the message from the now-deceased Walker, reported the Los Angeles Times. The message, tucked under a man-made stone structure known as a cairn, read: "To Whom it May Concern: This and a similar cairn 21.3 feet to the west were set on July 10, 1959.

The distance from this cairn to the glacier edge about four feet from the rock floor is 168.3 feet. Anyone venturing this way is requested to remeasure this distance and send the information to: Paul T. Walker, Department of Geology, The Ohio State University, Columbus 10, Ohio, USA and Mr. Albert P. Walker, 25 at the time, suffered a stroke in 1959 while on an Arctic expedition. "We were reading some of his last words," said Warwick F. LiveScience : Researchers find 54-year-old... SETI Institute.