Troubridge Island Conservation Park


From the clifftops at Edithburgh, views extend offshore to sandy Troubridge Island Conservation Park, home to much birdlife including penguins cormorants and terns. You can stay the night here at the Troubridge Island Lighthouse, built in 1886 after more than 30 ships (!) were wrecked here. The island is steadily eroding − what the sea wants, the sea will have…


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1. Edithburgh Museum

5.14 MILES

In an old stone shopfront a few hundred metres from the town jetty (where, the 1920s, salt exports made Edithburgh the third-busiest port in South…

2. Stansbury Museum

14.68 MILES

Lording it over the local school yard (this used to be the headmaster's house), Stansbury's museum digs into the town's post-colonial history with a…

3. Watsacowie Brewing Company

27.75 MILES

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