Maritime · Evidence-led place record

Vulcan

Flinders Island, South Australia.

Vulcan was a schooner built in and lost on 22/04/1845. Driven ashore.

CategorySHIPWRECK
LocationFlinders Island, South Australia.
DatasetSouth Australian Shipwrecks
Listed/year1845
Oddness signal90/99
Data completeness90%
SignificanceSchooner; Wood; Driven ashore.

The oddity, explained

Why is Vulcan unusual?

Vulcan appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Vulcan was a schooner built in and lost on 22/04/1845. Driven ashore. 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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