Robe Customs House
An 1860s bluestone customs house on the Robe waterfront, now a museum of the town's busy port and goldfields history.
Robe was once one of South Australia's busiest ports, and in 1857 tens of thousands of Chinese miners landed here to walk overland to the Victorian goldfields, dodging a Victorian entry tax.
The Customs House on the foreshore, built of local stone, managed that trade and now serves as a museum. Its displays cover the port era, the goldrush landings and the shipwrecks of the surrounding coast, set against one of Robe's prettiest waterfront positions.
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- Robe Customs House, West view 20230214 1.jpg by DXR , CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons