Australian Newspaper (Port Lincoln Times)

History

The Port Lincoln Times served the fishing and farming community of Port Lincoln on the southern tip of the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. The paper covered tuna fishing, grain farming, local government, and community affairs for a remote coastal town that sat far from Adelaide across hundreds of kilometres of sparse bushland.

The archive holds clippings spanning 1968 to 2002, one of the longest date ranges in the Australian newspaper collection. This extended coverage captures multiple sighting waves across more than three decades, from the late 1960s through the intense 1970s activity period to sporadic reports in the 1990s and early 2000s.