Kokunye Kyun
| Kokunye Kyun | ||
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| Waters | Andaman Sea | |
| Geographical location | 15 ° 18 '10 " N , 97 ° 42' 20" E | |
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| length | 1.4 km | |
| width | 400 m | |
| Highest elevation | 140 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Kokunye Kyun , also Aye Island , is an island belonging to Myanmar in the Gulf of Martaban in the Andaman Sea . It is located around 2.5 kilometers from the mainland.
history
On November 8, 1935, the Australian aviation pioneer Sir Charles Edward Kingsford Smith and his then co-pilot Tommy Pethybridge with their plane, the Lady Southern Cross , crashed on a record flight from Allahabad in India to Singapore near this island . Since then he has been considered lost.
It wasn't until about 18 months later that fishermen from Myanmar found parts of the plane at Kokunye Kyun. The part of the wreck that was found is a gear linkage with a wheel. There are several versions of the crash site, it has not yet been found, but attempts have been made to find the site again and again. Filmmaker Damien Lay says he found the wreck one hundred percent near Kokunye Kyun.