Maritime · Evidence-led place record

George Home

150 miles SSE of Kangaroo Island

George Home was a barque built in 1809 and lost on 26/04/1851. Sprang a leak and sank.

CategorySHIPWRECK
Location150 miles SSE of Kangaroo Island
DatasetSouth Australian Shipwrecks
Listed/year1851
Oddness signal90/99
Data completeness90%
SignificanceBarque; Wood; Sprang a leak and sank.

The oddity, explained

Why is George Home unusual?

George Home appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as George Home was a barque built in 1809 and lost on 26/04/1851. Sprang a leak and sank. 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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