Maritime · Evidence-led place record
Ben Morowie
Wallaroo, Yorke Peninsula
Ben Morowie was a cutter built in and lost on 27/06/1870. During a heavy westerly gale, the vessel dragged its anchor and drifted onto the Smelting Works Company's slag bank and broke up.
The oddity, explained
Why is Ben Morowie unusual?
Ben Morowie appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Ben Morowie was a cutter built in and lost on 27/06/1870. During a heavy westerly gale, the vessel dragged its anchor and drifted onto the Smelting Works Company's slag bank and broke up. Heritage Atlas treats that specific classification-and-description combination as the oddity; the score is a comparative discovery signal, not proof of mystery or the supernatural.
Evidence and further exploration
The coordinate, category and description remain tied to the cited source. Comparative oddness helps discovery; it does not add facts that the source does not provide.
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