Maritime · Evidence-led place record

Olive Florence

Backstairs Passage, between Cape Jervis and Emu Bay, Kangaroo Island

Olive Florence was a built in and lost on 30/05/1994. Started to leak and foundered in heavy seas.

CategorySHIPWRECK
LocationBackstairs Passage, between Cape Jervis and Emu Bay, Kangaroo Island
DatasetSouth Australian Shipwrecks
Listed/year1994
Oddness signal84/99
Data completeness90%
SignificanceWood; Started to leak and foundered in heavy seas.

The oddity, explained

Why is Olive Florence unusual?

Olive Florence appears here because the approved source classifies it as maritime. The source describes it as Olive Florence was a built in and lost on 30/05/1994. Started to leak and foundered 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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