Historical landmark
Cape Moreton Lighthouse
Sandstone lighthouse built by convict labour on a wind-scoured headland above shipwreck-prone waters.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Cape Moreton Lighthouse on Moreton Island follows the convict labourers who quarried its sandstone by hand in eighteen fifty-six, and the isolated keepers and shipwrecked sailors who later depended on goats turned loose across the headland for food. It traces the cottages that once stood beside the tower and the everyday work of feeding anyone who lived or washed up out here. Stand near where those cottages stood for the clearest sense of how isolated this point really was.
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