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Encounter Coast Discovery Centre & Museum


Inside Victor's 1866 Customs House on the foreshore, this National Trust museum has interesting local-history displays from pre-European times to around 1900: whaling, railways, shipping and Ngarrindjeri Aboriginal culture. Good for a rainy day.


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