A skeletal steel lighthouse on a remote, wreck-strewn stretch of coast near Carpenter Rocks, watching over reefs that claimed many ships.
Guarding the shipwreck coast
Cape Banks Lighthouse stands on a lonely, surf-battered headland near Carpenter Rocks, marking some of the most treacherous reefs on the Limestone Coast - waters that wrecked numerous ships, including the steamer Admella in 1859 with great loss of life. The current steel-lattice tower replaced an earlier light, and the surrounding coastline of rock platforms, blowholes and crashing surf is wild and beautiful.
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- Cape Banks Lighthouse(GN02656).jpg by State Government Photographer , CC0 via Wikimedia Commons