Maritime · Evidence-led place record
Rambler
Between Wool Bay & Stansbury, 2 miles north of Wool Bay
Rambler was a schooner built in 1871 and lost on 17/01/1877. On the evening of Monday 15 January 1877 Rambler departed Port Adelaide bound for Wool Bay, Yorke Peninsula with a NE wind. While crossing the Gulf, the wind shifted to the SW and the vessel anchored off Stansbury, where it rode out the strong breeze the
The oddity, explained
Why is Rambler unusual?
Rambler appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Rambler was a schooner built in 1871 and lost on 17/01/1877. On the evening of Monday 15 January 1877 Rambler departed Port Adelaide bound for Wool Bay, Yorke Peninsula with a NE wind. While crossing the Gulf, the wind shifted to the SW and the vessel anchored off Stansbury, where it rode out the strong breeze the. 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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