Maritime · Evidence-led place record
Alpha
Middle Spit near Port Augusta, South Australia
Alpha was a cutter built in 1879 and lost on 1940. Lay derelict at Port Wakefield for some time and in the late 1930s/1940s was towed out to sea from that port and sunk. Possibly wrecked at Port Augusta?
The oddity, explained
Why is Alpha unusual?
Alpha appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Alpha was a cutter built in 1879 and lost on 1940. Lay derelict at Port Wakefield for some time and in the late 1930s/1940s was towed out to sea from that port and sunk. Possibly wrecked at Port Augusta?. 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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