Short lifespan of the Cape Northumberland Bay lighthouse
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From weddings to deaths, drunken misbehaviours and a ghost story with so much spook it makes you quiver, a lot happened in the short lifespan of the Cape Northumberland Bay lighthouse off Port MacDonnell in South Australia. President of the Port MacDonnell District Maritime Museum, Veronica Jenkin, revisits some of the logbook entries in this audio clip.
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