Maritime · Evidence-led place record
York
Port Flinders (Weeroona Island), South Australia.
York was a cutter built in 1862 and lost on 1930. The York had a long life with the steam tug company being eventually sold to Port Pirie in 1925. Her final resting place is on the beach of the Weeroona Island, at the head of Spencer Gulf, and very little of the vessel now remains.
The oddity, explained
Why is York unusual?
York appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as York was a cutter built in 1862 and lost on 1930. The York had a long life with the steam tug company being eventually sold to Port Pirie in 1925. Her final resting place is on the beach of the Weeroona Island, at the head of Spencer Gulf, and very little of the vessel now remains. 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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