Maritime · Evidence-led place record

Ranger

500 m off Dangerous Reef Lighthouse, 32 km SE of Port Lincoln

Ranger was a built in 1942 and lost on 14/11/1979. Wrecked on a reef in a storm and split in two.

CategorySHIPWRECK
Location500 m off Dangerous Reef Lighthouse, 32 km SE of Port Lincoln
DatasetSouth Australian Shipwrecks
Listed/year1979
Oddness signal84/99
Data completeness90%
SignificanceWood; Wrecked on a reef in a storm and split in two.

The oddity, explained

Why is Ranger unusual?

Ranger appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Ranger was a built in 1942 and lost on 14/11/1979. Wrecked on a reef in a storm and split in two. 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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