Museum of the Great Southern

The Residency Museum building was first built in 1850 and was the depot for the convicts establishment in Albany. In 1873 it was converted to the Residents Magistrate’s House and in 1973, it became the current museum.
Two fascinating facts emerged from this visit:-
1. Transporting goods and people to remote, rocky Eclipse Island at the western end of West Cape Howe - landfall could not be made; the shoreline steep with no landing points or beaches; the currents and waves too treacherous. So all things had to be winched in from the boat to land via a basket [2 ppl max].
2. The early whaling implements from the 1800’s were small and flimsy.Read more