Maritime · Evidence-led place record
Roma Star
6 miles SE of Wedge Island, 96 km SE of Port Lincoln
Roma Star was a built in 1973 and lost on 05/08/1975. Fire broke out in the engine room about 9pm. The vessel exploded and sank.
The oddity, explained
Why is Roma Star unusual?
Roma Star appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Roma Star was a built in 1973 and lost on 05/08/1975. Fire broke out in the engine room about 9pm. The vessel exploded 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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