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Penneshaw Maritime & Folk Museum

Inside a 1922 stone school house, this salty museum displays artefacts from local shipwrecks and early white settlement (check out those girthsome millstones!), plus endearingly geeky models of Flinders' Investigator and Baudin's Geographe.

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