James Teer ( – 30 April 1887) was a New Zealand goldminer, mariner and

castaway A castaway is a person who is cast adrift or ashore. While the situation usually happens after a shipwreck, some people voluntarily stay behind on a desert island, either to evade kidnapping, captors or the world in general. A person may also be ...

. He was born in

Newcastle, County Down Newcastle is a small seaside resort town in County Down, Northern Ireland, which had a population of 8,298 at the United Kingdom Census 2021, 2021 Census. It lies by the Irish Sea at the foot of Slieve Donard, the highest of the Mourne Mountain ...

, Ireland, in about 1826. He emigrated to Australia at the age of 18. He was a passenger aboard the when it was shipwrecked in the

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, and was one of only 10 survivors out of a total of 83 people aboard.

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