Maritime · Evidence-led place record

Corona-Astron

2 km from Cape St. Albans, Kangaroo Island, South Australia

Corona-Astron was a sloop built in 1928 and lost on 03/03/1976. Swamped by freak waves.

CategorySHIPWRECK
Location2 km from Cape St. Albans, Kangaroo Island, South Australia
DatasetSouth Australian Shipwrecks
Listed/year1976
Oddness signal84/99
Data completeness90%
SignificanceSloop; Wood; Swamped by freak waves.

The oddity, explained

Why is Corona-Astron unusual?

Corona-Astron appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Corona-Astron was a sloop built in 1928 and lost on 03/03/1976. Swamped by freak waves. 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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