Photographs of Robe

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Robe is one of the oldest towns in South Australia, founded as a seaport, administrative centre and village only ten years after British settlers formally established the Province of South Australia. A stone obelisk was built on Cape Dombey in 1852 to assist ships to navigate safely into the bay. Even so, there have been a number of shipwrecks along the coast in the area. An automatic lighthouse was built on higher ground in 1973.