Cape Jaffa Lighthouse Museum

Cape Jaffa Lighthouse is a decommissioned lighthouse formerly located on Margaret Brock Reef near Cape Jaffa on the southeast coast of South Australia

The former lighthouse tower is owned by the National Trust of South Australia, which operates it as a museum.The platform which supported the tower is still in place at. The lighthouse was designed by George Wells. The parts were packed up and sent to Australia from England, and reconstructed at Cape Jaffa. All in all it took three years to build and was opened on 6 January 1872. It was originally built 8 km (5.0 mi) out to sea from Cape Jaffa on the Margaret Brock Reef. One particular shipwreck, the SS Admella was cited at the time as the reason for commissioning the lighthouse.. Known as a Wells screw pile, the original structure was held secure by being screwed into the ocean/reefs rocks. It was 41 m (135 ft) high and was designed to suit the local conditions. In its original structure, the lighthouse had eight rooms, enough to accommodate two lighthouse keepers and their families with enough stores to last several weeks. The lighthouse used a Chance Brothers lantern which could be seen for a distance up to 40 km (25 mi).