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Cape Otway Lighthouse, Victoria, Australia

Cape Otway Lighthouse is a lighthouse on Cape Otway in southern Victoria, Australia. It is Australia's oldest working lighthouse. During winter to spring, the lighthouse is a vantage point for land-based whale watching as migrating whales swim very close to shores.

The government reserved the tip of the cape as the site for a lighthouse. Access to the site was difficult; it was eventually reached overland and construction of the Cape Otway Lightstation began in 1846 from stone quarried at the Parker River.