Lighthouse Keeper's Cottage Museum

West Coast Australia


This tiny house museum, scenically overlooking the jetty in Carnarvon's Heritage Precinct and occupied by a succession of lighthouse keepers until 1980, sheds light on early maritime life in Carnarvon.


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