Antelope (packet ship)

Antelope (packet ship)

"Antelope" was a packet ship in service with the British East India Company. On 10 Aug 1783 "Antelope" wrecked off Ulong, [cite web |url= http://www.pacificworlds.com/palau/visitors/explore.cfm |title= Palau: Airai -- Visitors: Explorers |accessdate= 2007-12-25] near Koror Island in Palau resulting in the first sustained European contact with those islands. [cite web |url= http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Palau.htm |title= Palau |accessdate= 2007-12-23]

ee also

*Henry Wilson (Antelope)

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