Asparagus Island "Ospra" hit Asparagus Island in the early hours of Sunday, 6 May 1832. She was carrying sugar and coffee (worth £10,000), on a voyage from Havana to Hamburg. The crew, with the exception of one man who drowned, climbed onto the island and walked ashore at dawn. Both the vessel and cargo were a total loss. The wreck became known in local legend, as the ″coffee wreck″. Asparagus Island Asparagus Island is a small tidal island on the eastern side of Mount's Bay, within the parish of Mullion, Cornwall, United Kingdom. It lies within Kynance Cove, a popular tourist site
Clarke Island (Tasmania) Clarke Island (Tasmania) The Clarke Island (also known by its indigenous name of Lungtalanana Island), part of the Furneaux Group, is an island in Bass Strait, south of Cape Barren Island, about off the northeast coast of Tasmania, Australia. Off its west coast lies the shipwreck of "HMS Litherland", which sank in 1853 and was discovered in 1983. Clarke Island is Tasmania's eighth largest island. The island is privately owned by Connor Bradley. Lungtalanana was inhabited by indigenous people prior to European invasion, and some of these people had developed a reputation for fiercely protecting their land, as documented by