Maritime · Evidence-led place record
Amelia
About 100 m from shore (north west section?), Avoid Bay, Coffin Bay National Park, West Coast of South Australia.
Amelia was a cutter built in 1858 and lost on 08/02/1883. Amelia was on a sealing expedition to Four Hummocks Islands under the command of Captain Alexander Reid when lost on the morning of Thursday 8 February 1883. The vessel was hove to and drifting under a double-reefed mainsail at 12:30am about five miles o
The oddity, explained
Why is Amelia unusual?
Amelia appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Amelia was a cutter built in 1858 and lost on 08/02/1883. Amelia was on a sealing expedition to Four Hummocks Islands under the command of Captain Alexander Reid when lost on the morning of Thursday 8 February 1883. The vessel was hove to and drifting under a double-reefed mainsail at 12:30am about five miles o. 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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