Almost an Island

For a small place, tucked away on South Australia's rugged Limestone Coast, the village of Robe has played a remarkable role in history.<br /><br />In what turned out to be a brief, golden heyday as one of southern Australia's busiest ports, during the 1850s it witnessed fine clipper ships bound for London with loads of wool, the arrival of thousands of Chinese on their way to the Victorian goldfields, and the hijinks of partying pastoralists.<br /><br />Fifty years later