Point Cloates Lighthouse and Keepers Quarters3D Model
Point Cloates Lighthouse and Lighthouse Keepers Quarters - Ruins
Built in 1910, the light is one of five built with Commonwealth funding before the anticipated Commonwealth take over in 1915.
The light was particularly remote and the living conditions were cramped with the two lighthouse keepers living in one cottage with their families. The keepers had to be self reliant, growing a garden of vegetables, and hunting goat and fish. They traded supplies with the local Aboriginals in exchange for tobacco.
The light was automated and demanned in 1933. The lighthouse was severely damaged in the mid-1930s and abandoned, and sold to the owners of the 49,000 hectare Ningaloo sheep station in which the tower is located for it is likely the damage occurred due to the tower’s poor foundations, but could have been due to an earthquake.
http://www.lighthouses.org.au/lights/WA/Pt%20Cloates/Pt%20Cloates.htm
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