Maritime · Evidence-led place record
Kunara
10 nm west of Drummond Point, South Australia
Kunara was a cutter built in 1968 and lost on 02/09/1978. The crayboat Kunara, skippered by Vaun Guthrie, had been shark fishing in company with the fishing vessel Challenge, skippered by Graham Tapley, off Waterloo Bay on 1 September 1978. After unloading their catch at Elliston, the two vessels left on 2 Sept
The oddity, explained
Why is Kunara unusual?
Kunara appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Kunara was a cutter built in 1968 and lost on 02/09/1978. The crayboat Kunara, skippered by Vaun Guthrie, had been shark fishing in company with the fishing vessel Challenge, skippered by Graham Tapley, off Waterloo Bay on 1 September 1978. After unloading their catch at Elliston, the two vessels left on 2 Sept. 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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