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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