It's a dream job for someone who really wants to get away. Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service is looking for two new employees to man a lighthouse on a remote island for six months. The duo will live ...

Australia's loneliest, southern-most lighthouse, on Maatsuyker Island, about 10km south of Tasmania, kept watch over this isolated stretch of our coastline for more than a century. Its rare clockwork ...

IF the scenery at Maatsuyker Island doesn’t blow you away, the wind probably will. Paul Richardson and Amanda Walker reveal what it’s like to live on the remote isle. As one of the windiest sites in ...

Stephanie West comes to Maatsuyker Island in 1999 with her parents, who are charged with manning the lighthouse for five months, a period coinciding with Steph’s final year at school. The family is ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Tasmania. Followed categories will be added to My News. A Parks and Wildlife Service-led effort is under way to restore the original bronze vents in the lantern ...

A Hobart couple are spending the next four months tending Australia's most southerly lighthouse on a small, wet, windswept island off the south-west Tasmanian coast. Just a few kilometres off the ...

The Maatsuyker Island Lighthouse in Australia is the country’s most southerly and sits on a 186 hectare island, 5.5km off the coast. The island suffers from dramatic weather with 250 days of rain per ...

Maatsuyker Island caretakers are used to strong winds but the record 200km/h blast on Monday was at another level. They describe what it was like. >> But when Penny Pascoe and Michael Cooper woke ...