The history of the lighthouses along the shipwreck coast in Southern Australia is told from archived historical newspaper clippings, architectural drawings, lithographs, and photographs, as well as modern day photographs. The historic lighthouses include Cape Otway 1848, Williamstown 1848, Lady Bay Leading Lights 1854 and 1859, Cape Schanck 1859, Point Fairy – Griffiths Island 1859, Portland – Whalers Bluff 1859, Queenscliff – Shortland’s Bluff 1862, Cape Jervis 1871 and 1972, Cape Jaffa 1872, Robe 1972, Penguin Island 1878, Cape Martin 1960, Cape Nelson 1884, Split Point 1891, Point Lonsdale 1902 and Port Melbourne 1924.