From Galway Bay to Kola Bay - Research bottle set adrift 40 years ago reaches Russia

The note found inside the bottle. Picture: Dmitry Karchikov via NUI Galway.

A message in a bottle cast into the ocean off Ireland’s West coast roughly 40 years ago has turned up in Murmansk, Russia last week - some 4,000km away.

The bottle was discovered at Kola Bay, an estuary north of the port city of Murmansk, the biggest city in the Russian Oblast of the same name.