Breaksea Island Restoration
The Breaksea Island Heritage Restoration project is part of the GSDC’s maritime heritage tourism development strategy. The multi-staged project aims to fully restore the Breaksea Island lighthouse and heritage precinct and develop it as a conservation, community education and eco-tourism asset. The Albany Maritime Foundation received Regional Development Scheme funding to complete emergency restoration work and to develop a heritage conservation plan.
The Breaksea Island lighthouse and associated buildings are on both the State and National Registers of Heritage Places and are considered ‘rare’ as a complex of structures. The project progressed in 2008/09 with the completion of extensive repairs to the roofing of the two lighthouse keepers’ cottages which has stabilised these buildings. Stage two will involve the restoration of the heritage assets as defined by the conservation plan.
