Maritime · Evidence-led place record
Marco Polo
Unknown: somewhere off Robe, South Australia
Marco Polo was a sloop built in 1940 and lost on 05/11/1960. Vessel left Robe on Friday 4 November 1960 and disappeared. Vessel was possibly run down by a steamer.
The oddity, explained
Why is Marco Polo unusual?
Marco Polo appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Marco Polo was a sloop built in 1940 and lost on 05/11/1960. Vessel left Robe on Friday 4 November 1960 and disappeared. Vessel was possibly run down by a steamer. 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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