Kangaroo Island
South Australia
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Hope Cottage Museum

Hope Cottage Museum, Kingscote, Kangaroo Island, South Australia
Kingscote

One of three original cottages built at Kingscote in 1856.

Parndana Soldier Settlement Museum

Parndana Soldier Settlement Museum, Parndana, Kangaroo Island, South Australia
Parndana

The Parndana Soldier Settlement Museum is a modern historical display telling the stories of the development of the soldier settlement scheme in the early 1950s. A short stop will give you a snapshot of the lives of the settler's.

Cape Borda Lightstation - Flinders Chase National Park


Cape Borda

Cape Borda Lightstation is testament to a bygone era of travelling the open seas by sail, and is a monument to isolation and hardship.

Penneshaw Maritime And Folk Museum


Penneshaw

The Penneshaw Maritime and Folk Museum is a National Trust Museum situated in Penneshaw on the Dudley Peninsula at the eastern end of Kangaroo Island.

The Investigator Trail


Penneshaw

Prospect Hill is one of the most stopped by spots on Kangaroo Island. The road from the ferry terminal at Penneshaw goes right by and so just about every visitor to the island passes it.

Monument To Soldier Settlement Scheme


Parndana

The Monument to Soldier Settlement is situated at the Parndana Soldier Settlement Museum, located in the R.S.L. (Returned Servicemen's League) at Parndana. The Sir Cecil Hinks plough is a symbol of the land clearing that took place in late 1940 and early 1950 on Kangaroo Island.

Cape Willoughby Lightstation - Cape Willoughby Conservation Park


Willoughby

Situated in the easternmost point of Kangaroo Island, Cape Willoughby Lighthouse was the first lighthouse to be built in South Australia in 1852. The isolation, ruggedness and beauty of this part of Kangaroo Island, is striking.

Kangaroo Island Shipwreck Trail


Kingscote

Since official settlement in 1836, more than 60 shipwrecks have been recorded around kangaroo Island.