Maritime · Evidence-led place record
Mozambique
Coorong, below sea mouth of Murray River, South Australia.
Mozambique was a barque built in 1833 and lost on 19/08/1854. The next stage of the Mozambique’s journey from King George Sound commenced on the 4th August, with a crew of twenty-two and twenty-four passengers on board. Two days out, very strong north and north-west gales blew which continued until she reached th
The oddity, explained
Why is Mozambique unusual?
Mozambique appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Mozambique was a barque built in 1833 and lost on 19/08/1854. The next stage of the Mozambique’s journey from King George Sound commenced on the 4th August, with a crew of twenty-two and twenty-four passengers on board. Two days out, very strong north and north-west gales blew which continued until she reached th. 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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