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Whiddy Island disaster

marine disaster involving the explosion of French oil tanker Betelgeuse
Event maritime_disaster Q110264484
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Whiddy Island disaster

Summary

Whiddy Island disaster is a maritime disaster[1]. It draws 41 Wikipedia views per month (maritime_disaster category, ranking #8 of 14).[2]

Key Facts

  • Whiddy Island disaster is located in Whiddy[3].
  • Whiddy Island disaster is in the country of Ireland[4].
  • Whiddy Island disaster is on the body of water Bantry Bay[5].
  • Whiddy Island disaster's instance of is recorded as maritime disaster[6].
  • Whiddy Island disaster's location is recorded as Whiddy Island[7].
  • Whiddy Island disaster's point in time is recorded as +1979-01-08T00:00:00Z[8].
  • Whiddy Island disaster's coordinate location is recorded as {'globe': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2', 'altitude': None, 'latitude': 51.68772222222222, 'longitude': -9.53225, 'precision': 2.777777777777778e-05}[9].
  • Whiddy Island disaster's described at URL is recorded as https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/842728/whiddy-island-tribunal-report.pdf[10].
  • Whiddy Island disaster's number of deaths is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+49'}[11].
  • Whiddy Island disaster's schematic is recorded as Bantry.PNG[12].

Why It Matters

Whiddy Island disaster draws 41 Wikipedia views per month (maritime_disaster category, ranking #8 of 14).[2]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . s3.documentcloud.org. s3.documentcloud.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . s3.documentcloud.org. s3.documentcloud.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wssrotterdam.nl. wssrotterdam.nl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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