Maritime · Evidence-led place record

Latona

Boxing Bay, Kangaroo Island

Latona was a sloop built in 1961 and lost on 13/06/1990. Vessel ran onto rocks and broke up.

CategorySHIPWRECK
LocationBoxing Bay, Kangaroo Island
DatasetSouth Australian Shipwrecks
Listed/year1990
Oddness signal84/99
Data completeness90%
SignificanceSloop; Wood; Vessel ran onto rocks and broke up.

The oddity, explained

Why is Latona unusual?

Latona appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Latona was a sloop built in 1961 and lost on 13/06/1990. Vessel ran onto rocks 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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