Maritime · Evidence-led place record
Albatross
Eclipse Reef, Port Victoria, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia
Albatross was a schooner built in 1874 and lost on 12/03/1913. Albatross struggled into Port Victoria in the late afternoon of the 12 March 1913, after riding gale-force winds from Port Adelaide. It was carrying a cargo of super phosphate. At 7.20 pm the gale pushed Albatross onto the Eclipse Reef, and the crew lit
The oddity, explained
Why is Albatross unusual?
Albatross appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Albatross was a schooner built in 1874 and lost on 12/03/1913. Albatross struggled into Port Victoria in the late afternoon of the 12 March 1913, after riding gale-force winds from Port Adelaide. It was carrying a cargo of super phosphate. At 7.20 pm the gale pushed Albatross onto the Eclipse Reef, and the crew lit. 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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