List of lighthouses and lightvessels in Australia

This list contains lighthouses and lightships in Australia.

Are located on the 25,760 km long coastline of Australia over 350 lighthouses and navigational aids and domestically there is the Point Malcolm lighthouse, the lighthouse located in the Australian domestic one.

The first lighthouse, built in Australia, was the Macquarie Lighthouse, one erected wooden tripod with a signal fire out of coal. The last operated by people firing took place in the Australian Lighthouse Maatsuyker Iceland Lighthouse on Maatsuyker Iceland, off the south coast of Tasmania. The beacon was automated in 1996.

Management

Most lighthouses and lightships in Australia are operated by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority ( AMSA ), together with the competent local authorities. You are responsible for the lighthouses and the surrounding parks, although the AMSA is usually only responsible for firing.

In New South Wales the lighthouses and parks by the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water or New South Wales Department of Lands and the Northern Territory are some lighthouses operated by the Port Corporation in Darwin. In South Australia, some stations are managed by the Department for Environment and Heritage. and in Tasmania operates the Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service numerous lighthouses. In Victoria, mainly afford the Port of Melbourne Corporation in the area of Melbourne and the Victorian Regional Channels Authority support, as most parks are operated by the management of Parks Victoria. Furthermore, in Western Australia some listed stations are maintained by the Department of Environment and Conservation.

Lighthouses by provinces

Jervis Bay Territory

New South Wales

In New South Wales there are several lighthouses that were designed around the same time by the same architects with similar design and therefore exhibit a similar style. These are:

• Wollongong Breakwater Lighthouse and Warden Head Light, built 1872-1873 and initiated by Edward O. Moriarty
• Crowdy Head Light, Fingal Head Light, Clarence River Light ( the original is now dismantled ), Tacking Point Lighthouse and Richmond River Light, 1878, designed by James Barnet
• Point Perpendicular Lighthouse (1899 ), Cape Byron Light ( 1901) and Norah Head Light ( 1903), designed by Charles Harding Assinder
• Bradleys Head Light ( 1905) and Robertson Point Light (1910 )
• The " Disney Castles", Grotto Point Light, Parriwi Headlight, Vaucluse Bay Range Front Light and Vaucluse Bay Range Rear Light, built 1910-1911 by Maurice Festu
• Built The " Wedding Cakes ", Eastern Channel Pile Light and Western Channel Pile Light 1924

Northern Territory

Most lighthouses in the Northern Territory were ( German: Golden Age of Australian Lighthouses ) from the Commonwealth Lighthouse Service during the " Golden Age of Australian Lighthouses ", 1913-1920 built. These are the Cape Don Light, East Vernon Light, Emery Point Light, Cape Hotham Light and Cape Fourcroy.

Of these five lighthouses, three as " siblings " warden understood: Cape Hotham Light, Emery Point Light and Cape Fourcroy Light. They are identifiable as white square-shaped skeleton towers and they have the same Lichtcharateristik that emits a flash of light every 15 seconds. ( Fl. ( 3) 15s ).

Queensland

Most lighthouses in Queensland were produced in small series:

• Two lighthouses are connected with prefabricated segments of cast iron with bolts, have been prepared: Sandy Cape Light and Bustard Head Light.
• Eight Lighthouses are made from a Hartholzrahmem which is clad with corrugated iron: Little Sea Hill Light, Grassy Hill Light, Goods Iceland Light, Bay Rock Light, Old Caloundra Light, North Point Hummock Light ( removed), Gatcombe Head Light ( reduced ) and Bulwer Iceland Light.
• Seven concrete towers were built in 1964-1979: Cape Capricorn Light, New Caloundra Light, Point Danger Light, New Burnett Heads Light, Fitzroy Iceland Light, Point Cartwright Light and Archer Point Light.

South Australia

Tasmania

Victoria

Western Australia

Registration

The lighthouses and lightships of Australia are registered in the National Geospatial- Intelligence Agency ( List of Lights publication 111) and also in the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office Admiralty List of Lights & Fog signal ( Volume K). The ARLHS World List of Lights provides these lighthouses marked " OFF".

There are also other registrations: In The Lighthouse Directory lighthouses are registered accordingly by region:

• Coral Sea Islands Territory
• New South Wales, including Cape St George Lighthouse, which is located in the Jervis Bay Territory.
• Northern Territory
• East coast of Queensland, from Townsville in the south
• Remote Queensland
• South Australia
• Tasmania
• Victoria
• Western Australia

Another list outlines the Lighthouses of Australia Inc., which lists the lighthouses after the Australian states:

• Western Australia
• Northern Territory
• South Australia
• Queensland
• New South Wales
• Victoria
• Tasmania

In addition, there is a website Australian Lighthouses, the alphabetically arranged lighthouses. and a list by state.

A further list of lighthouses found in SeaSide Lights, which divided the lighthouses after the Australian states:

• Western Australia
• Northern Territory
• South Australia
• Queensland
• New South Wales
• Victoria
• Tasmania

An active Australian lighthouse in the directory The Lighthouse Directory, Lighthouses of Australia Inc. or SeaSide Lights be registered. Other lists also take stations, which can be referred to as beacons difficult. Because historic lighthouses are sometimes registered if they are also mentioned in other lists available.