Other Aquatic · Suva Harbour, Central · 1888
VIT-1888ID case-9c888017beAdded to map Oct 10, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Jun 1888to the month
- Where
- Suva Harbour, Centralto approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witnesses report a creature answering the sea-serpent description swimming toward an island.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Suva Harbour, Suva, Rewa, Central, Viti
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Jun 1888
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-9c888017be
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Source trail (1)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- Image 2 of Sacramento daily record-union (Sacramento [Calif.]), June 16, 1888
Newspaper · 1888-06-16
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
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Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.