Dead Reckoning: The Breaksea Islanders and Me—West Australia

Abstract

GETTING THERE
Breaksea Island breaks up the huge south-easterly seas rolling towards King George Sound on the south coast of Western Australia. The island has been home to two lighthouses the first built by the British in 1858. Now it is little more than a rusting plinth of riveted metal overshadowed by its stoic successor. The island was also home to the lighthouse keepers and before and now a disparate group of people hailing from all parts of the world.