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Adelaide (1832)

early nineteenth-century wooden cutter in Australia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ4681657 ↗
Source-derived summary

Adelaide was a wooden cutter that was wrecked near Bird Island, Norah Head, New South Wales, in May 1834. She was carrying a load of timber.

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The public source identifies “Adelaide (1832)” as early nineteenth-century wooden cutter in Australia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Adelaide, early and nineteenth-century.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1834—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Adelaide, early and nineteenth-century providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4681657. Authority coordinates are -33.230, 151.600. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1834.

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This entry incorporates text from “Adelaide (1832)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.