Maritime · Evidence-led place record
Aeolus
Aeolus Reef, near Cape Banks, opposite Pelican Point, 23 miles west of Mt Gambier, South Australia.
Aeolus was a ship built in 05/05/1886 and lost on 01/09/1894. The vessel missed stays and struck a partially submerged reef, filled with water and broke up over a period of a week.
The oddity, explained
Why is Aeolus unusual?
Aeolus appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Aeolus was a ship built in 05/05/1886 and lost on 01/09/1894. The vessel missed stays and struck a partially submerged reef, filled with water and broke up over a period of a week. 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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