Brief description
The Apollo Bay museum is housed in the buildings from which the undersea cable connected Tasmania with the mainland. It is operated by the Apollo Bay and District Historical Society.Full description
The Apollo Bay museum is housed in the buildings from which the undersea cable connected Tasmania with the mainland. It includes displays of relics from shipwrecks and ships that were the primary means of access before the Great Ocean Road opened. It also has an extensive range of histories of the people who created and sustained this remote community recorded in a number of small publications about the area, its people, life and the shipwrecks. Titles include: Apollo Bay: 150 Years of Settlement by Rosemary Bellair & Joan Martin; Battler by the Bay by I.P. Cave & L.E. Hunt; A Bike Ride along the Ocean Road (1929) by T. Wohlfahrt; A Community of Care: 50 Years of health care in Apollo Bay and the Otways by Peter Griffiths; Journal of an Expedition to Cape Otway (1863) by Miss Parkinson; Shipwrecks Along the Great Ocean Road by Jack Loney and many more. The Apollo Bay and District Historical Society also has extensive records relating to early European pioneers.Significance
This collection illustrates the significance of transport and communications in a remote town in Regional Australia over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries.Data time period: 1800 to 1950
Spatial Coverage And Location
text: Great Ocean Road Australia
text: Cape Ottway, Victoria, Australia
text: Apollo Bay, Victoria, Australia
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Identifiers
- Local : ABM001
- URI : www.apollobay.org.au/history/index.htm
