Heritage & History
Saints, shipwrecks & colonial ports
The best heritage & history in Mount Gambier
This is the country of Australia's first saint, Mary MacKillop, of grand colonial ports like Robe that once landed thousands of Chinese gold-seekers, and of lighthouses standing watch over a notorious shipwreck coast.
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Cape Banks Lighthouse
FreeA lighthouse on a wild coast
A skeletal steel lighthouse on a remote, wreck-strewn stretch of coast near Carpenter Rocks, watching over reefs that claimed many ships.
Cave Garden (Thugi)
FreeA cave in the city centre
A dramatic limestone sinkhole and waterfall in the heart of Mount Gambier, of deep cultural significance to the Boandik people.
Umpherston Sinkhole
FreeThe Sunken Garden
A collapsed limestone cave transformed into a terraced sunken garden of hydrangeas, ivy and hanging vines, floodlit at night when possums emerge.