Maritime Museum

Maritime museum push for Lady Barron to showcase Furneaux Islands' shipwreck 'graveyard'

The wreck of the trader the Sydney Cove in 1797 put the area on the map — even before British navigator Matthew Flinders charted the islands in 1798.

From then on the local sealing and mutton bird industries boomed, and ships were regularly trading in the area.

The Furneaux Maritime History Association now wants to establish a permanent artefact display near the coast at Lady Barron.