Maritime · Evidence-led place record
Rosalind Star
Near Yatala Reef
Rosalind Star was a unknown built in 1965 and lost on 24/01/1984. Rosalind Star left Thevenard on 14 January 1984, bound for the tuna fishing grounds in the Great Australian Bight. On board was the master and owner, Grant Carnie of Port Lincoln, with an engineer and six deckhands, as well as a passenger who was a fish
The oddity, explained
Why is Rosalind Star unusual?
Rosalind Star appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Rosalind Star was a unknown built in 1965 and lost on 24/01/1984. Rosalind Star left Thevenard on 14 January 1984, bound for the tuna fishing grounds in the Great Australian Bight. On board was the master and owner, Grant Carnie of Port Lincoln, with an engineer and six deckhands, as well as a passenger who was a fish. 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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