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The Avalanche Sea Serpents of Hạ Long Bay
July 1897 · Hạ Long Bay and the Baie de Fai-Tsi-Long (Bái Tử Long Bay), Tonkin
Vietnam
Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources
26Thinly documented
The SS Umfuli Sea Serpent
December 4, 1893 · Atlantic Ocean off the coast of West Africa, south of the Canary Islands (about 21°40′N, 17°30′W)
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 11 sources
16Thinly documented
Selina Lovell's Moha-moha at Sandy Cape
June 8, 1890 · Sandy Cape, Great Sandy Island (K'gari / Fraser Island), Queensland
Australia
Cryptid · Creature · 11 sources
18Thinly documented
The Con Rít carcass of Hongay, Bay of Along, 1883
1883 · Hongay (Hòn Gai), Bay of Along (Hạ Long Bay), Tonkin
Vietnam
Cryptid · Creature · 23 sources
19Thinly documented
S. W. Hanna's "Young Sea-Serpent" in the Nets at New Harbor, Maine
August 1880 · Off New Harbor, Pemaquid peninsula, Bristol, Lincoln County, Maine
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 11 sources
21Thinly documented
The Kiushiu Maru sea serpent gripping a whale off Cape Satano
April 5, 1879 · At sea about nine miles off Cape Satano (Cape Sata), Ōsumi Peninsula, Kagoshima, Kyushu
Japan
Cryptid · Creature · 15 sources
18Thinly documented
The Royal Yacht Osborne Sea Monster off Sicily
June 2, 1877 · Off the north coast of Sicily, toward Cape Vito (Capo San Vito)
Italy
Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources
21Thinly documented
The SS Nestor sea serpent
September 11, 1876 · Strait of Malacca, fifteen miles north-west of North Sand Lighthouse, off Selangor
Malaysia
Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources
19Thinly documented
The Schooner Pearl and the Giant Squid, Bay of Bengal 1874
May 10, 1874 · Bay of Bengal, about 170 miles east of Vandeloos Bay, off Trincomalee, Ceylon
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources
14Thinly documented
The Leda sea serpent: Rev. John Macrae and Rev. David Twopeny at Loch Hourn and the Sound of Sleat, 1872
August 20, 1872 · Loch Hourn and the Sound of Sleat, near Glenelg, Inverness-shire, Scotland
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources
27Thinly documented
The Sheridan Boy and the Striped Queensland Tiger, Cardwell (1871)
1871 · Near Cardwell, Rockingham Bay district, north Queensland
Australia
Cryptid · Creature · 15 sources
16Thinly documented
Francisco de Amaral Varella's Minhocão on the Rio das Caveiras
c. 1870 · Bank of the Rio das Caveiras, about 10 km from Lages, Santa Catarina
Brazil
Cryptid · Creature · 19 sources
26Thinly documented
Giant bird carries off Jemmie Kenney, Tippah County, Mississippi
1868 · A school in Tippah County, Mississippi
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 10 sources
14Thinly documented
Giglioli's Whale: the Two-Finned Whale Seen from the Corvette Magenta
September 4, 1867 · South Pacific Ocean, about 1,200 miles (1,930 km) off the coast of Chile
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 13 sources
22Thinly documented
The Castilian Sea Serpent off St Helena
December 12, 1857 · About ten miles off the northeast end of St Helena, South Atlantic
Saint Helena
Cryptid · Creature · 15 sources
24Thinly documented
Zana of Tkhina, the abnauayu wild woman of Abkhazia
c. 1850 · Tkhina, Ochamchira District, Abkhazia
Georgia
Cryptid · Creature · 36 sources
31Partially documented
The HMS Plumper Sea Serpent
December 31, 1848 · Open Atlantic, nearly due west of Oporto (41°13′N, 12°31′W)
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources
11Thinly documented
The British Officers' Sea Serpent of St. Margaret's Bay
May 15, 1833 · St. Margaret's Bay, between Halifax and Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia
Canada
Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources
27Thinly documented
Captain Lorenz von Ferry's sea serpent off Molde, 1746
August 1746 · Jule-Naess (very probably Julneset), near Molde, Møre og Romsdal
Norway
Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources
24Thinly documented
Hans and Poul Egede's "most dreadful monster": the Davis Strait sea serpent of 1734
July 6, 1734 · Davis Strait, off the west coast of Greenland, near the 64th degree of latitude
Greenland
Cryptid · Creature · 24 sources
20Thinly documented