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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