Maritime · Evidence-led place record

Fish Market Pontoon

Jervois Basin, Port Adelaide, South Australia

Fish Market Pontoon was a built in and lost on 1950. Circa 1960, the wooden pontoon was removed and abandoned on the Ethelton mud flats.

CategorySHIPWRECK
LocationJervois Basin, Port Adelaide, South Australia
DatasetSouth Australian Shipwrecks
Listed/year1950
Oddness signal90/99
Data completeness90%
SignificanceWood; Circa 1960, the wooden pontoon was removed and abandoned on the Ethelton mud flats.

The oddity, explained

Why is Fish Market Pontoon unusual?

Fish Market Pontoon appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Fish Market Pontoon was a built in and lost on 1950. Circa 1960, the wooden pontoon was removed and abandoned on the Ethelton mud flats. 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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