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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