| Sumario: | The article focuses on the memorials made by Australia after the tragic shipwreck of RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912. It highlights the three mining towns, Kadina, Broken Hill and Ballarat, in which memorials for Titanic were established. It states that the regions were contested for their biased way of presenting the catastrophe. Moreover, it provides an overview of different Titanic narratives and of the agitation brought by the Titanic tragedy. It claims that the incident had created social and political myths that served as accounts for the continuing significance of the iconic ship.
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