Albatross Two is sensational and occasionally sentimental but it is a vigorous book, giving a panoramic view of a small township on the South Australian coast altered and upset by the arrival off its shores of an oil rig. Colin Thiele has set his scene firmly, stated his theme and studied it from every angle…. The plot is exciting enough for anyone…. The dramatic solution to the village's problem is so obviously authentic in details, the story is so well told, the characters play their parts so naturally, that one hardly feels like complaining that the happy ending belongs too obviously to fiction rather than to reality.

Margery Fisher, "Progress and Protest: 'Albatross Two'," in her Growing Point, Vol. 14, No. 2, July, 1975, p. 2668.