Maritime · Evidence-led place record
Hougomont
Stenhouse Bay, Innes National Park, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia
Hougomont was a barque built in 03/06/1897 and lost on 08/01/1933. Four Finnish seamen, perched high up in the rigging of the four masted barque Hougomont, anxiously adjusted the sails. Under normal sailing conditions their task would have been easy and the view, from their vantage point, quite spectacular. On this part
The oddity, explained
Why is Hougomont unusual?
Hougomont appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Hougomont was a barque built in 03/06/1897 and lost on 08/01/1933. Four Finnish seamen, perched high up in the rigging of the four masted barque Hougomont, anxiously adjusted the sails. Under normal sailing conditions their task would have been easy and the view, from their vantage point, quite spectacular. On this part. 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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