Maritime · Evidence-led place record
Malcolm
Tumby Bay, Second Creek, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia.
Malcolm was a ketch built in 1875 and lost on 22/09/1928. Stranded and abandoned
CategorySHIPWRECK
LocationTumby Bay, Second Creek, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia.
DatasetSouth Australian Shipwrecks
Listed/year1928
Oddness signal90/99
Data completeness90%
SignificanceKetch; Wood; Stranded and abandoned
The oddity, explained
Why is Malcolm unusual?
Malcolm appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Malcolm was a ketch built in 1875 and lost on 22/09/1928. Stranded and abandoned. 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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