Cape Willoughby Lighthouse, Kangaroo Island, South Australia
Cape Willoughby Lighthouse, Kangaroo Island
Below are some photographs of the Cape Willoughby Lighthouse on Kangaroo Island.
All B&W photographs courtesy State Library South Australia
List of Keepers and farmers in the nearby area in 1906
The 87 ft high Lighthouse in 1910
1915
Accidents still happened.
Wreckage of the Kona 1917
Houses for Keepers and their families finished in 1927.
1938
Sperm Whale bones 2014
Automated in 1974, deactivated in 2003
Holes made with hammer and chisel. Then plugged with wood
which was kept wet to expand,
splitting the granite rock which was then used in the building of the Lighthouse.
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