A girl in the US state of Hawaii found a bottle containing a 37-year-old Japanese letter.
The Hawaii Tribune website reported that the letter, which dates back to 1984, was washed up in Hawaii and was discovered by a nine-year-old girl.
High school students in Japan threw the letter, “An Investigation of the Ocean Current,” into the ocean as part of a science experiment.
The message was thrown into the Kuroshio Current near Miyajima Island in western Japan, as part of a school project on ocean currents.
The sealed letter inside, dated July 1984, asks the person who finds the bottle to return it to Chushi High School.
37 years later, baby Abby Graham found the letter in Hawaii while on a family visit to a beach near Hilo.
This discovery indicates that the letter traveled 4,350 miles, or about 7,000 kilometers, over all these decades, after being swept away by waves.
The high school announced in a press release that it released 450 bottles in 1984, and another 300 in 1985, as part of the Ocean Current Survey.
So far, 51 bottles have been found and returned, but this letter is the only one found since 2002.