Maritime · Evidence-led place record
Mary
Antechamber Bay, Kangaroo Island, South Australia.
Mary was a ketch built in 1876 and lost on 01/08/1951. Mary encountered a north east gale. With the motor out of action, the vessel was washed ashore. It stuck a sand bar, and broke up in heavy seas.
The oddity, explained
Why is Mary unusual?
Mary appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Mary was a ketch built in 1876 and lost on 01/08/1951. Mary encountered a north east gale. With the motor out of action, the vessel was washed ashore. It stuck a sand bar, and broke up in heavy seas. 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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