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Cape Willoughby Lightstation Heritage Walk - Stop 4 - SA

Cape Willoughby Lightstation Heritage Walk - Stop 4

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Position

DEG: -35.83955 138.130402

DMS: 35º 50' 22.38" S 138º 07' 49.45" E

UTM: 54 H 6030045mN 240813mE

Altitude: 10m

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Cape Willoughby Lightstation Heritage Walk

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4. Landing - and supplementing the supplies.
Supplies arrived every three months and were brought ashore at the landing by a dinghy. Not as simple as it sounds. In 1917 the landing was described as ‘practically a shelf of rock with jagged boulders scattered around.’ (Department of Trade and Customs Minute Paper 19/4/1917.) Around 1920 it was upgraded and later a crane erected. The dinghy was housed in a boat shed built here in 1858. You can imagine how the early keepers supplemented their stores by rowing out to passing ships. Anything extra - maybe a bit more rum or tobacco - would have made life more pleasant. Fish caught from the landing and from a much more dangerous spot directly below the lighthouse also supplemented the supplies.
The next part of the hike initially follows the old track that led up to the cottages.
http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/parks/Find_a_Park/Browse_by_region/kangaroo-island/cape-willoughby

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Closest Weather Station

Cape Willoughby at 17/06:30am CST

Distance from Cape Willoughby Lightstation Heritage Walk - Stop 4 0.4km SE

Temperature	Feels Like	Rel. Humidity	Dew Point	Pressure	Rainfall	Wind Direction	Wind Speed	Gusts
7.3°C	2.5°C	82%	4.4°C	1018.8hPa	1.8mm	WNW	19km/hr 10knots	19km/hr 10knots

Closest Climatic Station

Cape Willoughby

Distance from Cape Willoughby Lightstation Heritage Walk - Stop 4 0.4km SE

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Mean Max. °C	21.6	21.8	20.8	19.1	16.9	14.9	14.2	14.5	15.9	17.6	19.1	20.6
Mean Min. °C	15.8	16.4	15.6	14.2	12.5	10.8	9.8	9.6	10.3	11.4	13.0	14.4
Mean Rain mm	18.3	18.0	21.5	39.5	61.6	75.2	81.5	73.9	56.2	41.9	28.3	23.0