List of lighthouses in Australia
Template:Short description Template:Side box Template:Use Australian English Template:Use dmy dates This is a list of lighthouses and lightvessels in Australia.
Australia has a coastline of Script error: No such module "convert".,[1] with over 350 lighthouses and navigational aids around the Australian coastline,[2] and a single inland lighthouse, the Point Malcolm lighthouse.[3]
The first lighthouse was Macquarie Lighthouse, which was lit in 1793 as a tripod mounted wood and coal fired beacon.[2][4] The last staffed lighthouse was Maatsuyker Island Lighthouse, off the south coast of Tasmania, which was automated in 1996.[2]
Listing
The lighthouses and lightvessels of Australia are listed in the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency List of Lights publication 111.[5] They are listed by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office on volume K of the Admiralty List of Lights & Fog Signals.[6] The ARLHS World List of Lights lists them with the prefix "AUS".[7]
On The Lighthouse Directory, the lighthouses of Australia are listed according to their location:
- Coral Sea Islands Territory[8]
- New South Wales, including Cape St George Lighthouse which is in Jervis Bay Territory.[9]
- Northern Territory[10]
- Queensland's East Coast, from Townsville southwards[11]
- Far North Queensland[12]
- South Australia[13]
- Tasmania[14]
- Victoria[15]
- Western Australia[16]
Another listing is held by Lighthouses of Australia Inc., which lists lighthouses by state[17]
- Western Australia[18]
- Northern Territory[19]
- South Australia[20]
- Queensland[21]
- New South Wales[22]
- Victoria[23]
- Tasmania[24]
Another list exists at Australian Lighthouses, a website which includes both an A-Z list[25] and a list by state.[26]
A list also exists at SeaSide Lights, which lists lighthouses by state:[27]
- Western Australia[28]
- Northern Territory[29]
- South Australia[30]
- Queensland[31]
- New South Wales[32]
- Victoria[33]
- Tasmania[34]
In order to be listed below, an active lighthouse has to appear at least in one of The Lighthouse Directory, Lighthouses of Australia Inc. or SeaSide Lights. Other lists mentioned above include many lights which are hard to describe as "lighthouses".[35] Historical lighthouses were sometimes included when they are mentioned in other reliable sources.
Management
Most of the lighthouses and lightvessels in Australia are managed by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA), though the AMSA usually only manages the lighting equipment, with local authorities managing the lighthouses and parklands. In New South Wales the lighthouses and parklands are mostly managed by the Department of Environment, Climate Change & Water.[9] In the Northern Territory some of the lighthouses are managed by the Darwin Port Corporation.[10] In South Australia some of the stations are managed by the Department for Environment & Water.[13] In Tasmania, many lighthouses are managed by the Tasmania Parks & Wildlife Service.[14] In Victoria, harbour aids are maintained by the Port of Melbourne Corporation in the Melbourne area and by the Victorian Regional Channels Authority elsewhere,[36] while parklands are mostly managed by Parks Victoria.[15] In Western Australia some of the stations are managed by the Department of Parks & Wildlife.
Lighthouses by state or territory
Jervis Bay Territory
| Location | Name | Image | Coordinates | Established | Automated | Deactivated | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jervis Bay Village | Cape St George Lighthouse | File:Cape St George lighthouse ruins.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1860 | 1889 | Destroyed to avoid confusion with Point Perpendicular Light.[37] |
New South Wales
There are several lighthouse siblings in the vicinity – lighthouses that were designed by the same architect around the same time, which are very similar by design. These include:
- Wollongong Breakwater Lighthouse and Warden Head Light, built 1872–1873, initiated by Edward Orpen Moriarty MA MInstCE
- Crowdy Head Light, Fingal Head Light, Clarence River Light (the original, now demolished), Tacking Point Lighthouse and Richmond River Light, designed by James Barnet in 1878
- Point Perpendicular Light (1899), Cape Byron Light (1901) and Norah Head Light (1903), designed by Charles Assinder Harding
- Bradleys Head Light (1905) and Robertson Point Light (1910)
- The "Disney Castles", Grotto Point Light, Parriwi Head Light, Vaucluse Bay Range Front Light and Vaucluse Bay Range Rear Light, built 1910–1911 by Maurice Festu
- The "Wedding Cakes", Eastern Channel Pile Light and Western Channel Pile Light built in 1924
| Location | Name | Image | Coordinates | Year established |
Year automated |
Status | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balgowlah Heights | Grotto Point Light | File:Grotto Point Light.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1911 | active | ||
| Ballina | Richmond River Light | File:Richmond River Lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1866 | 1920 | active | |
| Bradleys Head | Bradleys Head Light | File:Bradleys Head Lighthouse Sydney.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1905 | active | ||
| Burrewarra Point | Burrewarra Point Light | File:BurewarraPoint.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1974 | 1974 | active | Solar powered[38] |
| Cape Byron | Cape Byron Light | File:Phare de Cap Byron.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1901 | active | ||
| Cremorne Point | Robertson Point Light | File:Robertson Point Light.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1910 | active | ||
| Crowdy Head | Crowdy Head Light | File:Crowdy Head Light.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1878 | 1928 | active | |
| Culburra Beach | Crookhaven Heads Light | File:Crookhaven Heads Lighthouse 2025.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1882 | Inactive | Solar Powered[39] | |
| Fingal Head | Fingal Head Light | File:Fingal Head Light 2009.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1872 | 1920 | active | |
| Fort Denison | Fort Denison Light | File:Fort Denison 1.JPG | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1913 | active | ||
| Green Cape | Green Cape Lighthouse | File:Green Cape Lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1883 | 1983 | 1997 | replaced with solar powered light tower [40] |
| Kiama | Kiama Light | File:Kiama Light.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1887 | 1920 | active | |
| Kurnell | Cape Bailey Light | File:Cape Bailey Lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1950 | active | ||
| Montague Island | Montague Island Light | File:Phare de l'ile Montague.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1881 | 1986 | active | Solar powered[41] |
| Mosman | Parriwi Head Light | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1911 | active | |||
| Nelson Bay | Nelson Head Light | File:Nelson Head Light.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1872 | 1984 | 2003 | |
| Newcastle | Nobbys Head Light | File:Nobbys Head Light, 1902 cropped.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1854 | 1935 | active | |
| Norah Head | Norah Head Light | File:Norah Head Light.JPG | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1903 | 1995 | active | |
| North Solitary Island | North Solitary Island Light | File:North Solitary - cropped.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1975 | active | Fibreglass structure; Solar powered[42] | |
| Palm Beach | Barrenjoey Head Lighthouse | File:BarrenjoeyLighthouse.JPG | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1855 | 1932 | active | |
| Point Perpendicular | Point Perpendicular Light | File:Point Perpendicular Lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1899 | 1993 | replaced with solar powered light tower [43] | |
| Point Stephens | Point Stephens Light | File:Point Stephens Lighthouse cropped.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1862 | 1989 | active | Solar powered[44] |
| Port Jackson | Eastern Channel Pile Light | File:East Channel Pile Light.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1924 | active | ||
| Port Jackson | Western Channel Pile Light | File:Western Channel Pile Light located on Sydney Harbour.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1924 | active | ||
| Port Macquarie | Tacking Point Lighthouse | File:Tacking Point Lighthouse qtl1 cropped.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1879 | 1919 | active | |
| Shark Island | Shark Island Light | File:Shark Island Light historic 1 cropped.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1913 | active | ||
| Smoky Cape | Smoky Cape Lighthouse | File:SmokyCapeLighthouse.JPG | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1891 | 1988 | active | |
| Seal Rocks | Sugarloaf Point Light | File:Sugarloaf Point Lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1875 | 1987 | active | External stairs[45] |
| South Solitary Island | South Solitary Island Light | File:South Solitary Island Lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1880 | 1975 | active | Solar powered[46] |
| Ulladulla | Warden Head Light | File:Warden Head Light 2007.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1873 | 1920 | active | Battery powered, relocated[47] |
| Vaucluse | Macquarie Lighthouse | File:Macquarie Lighthouse, Sydney, photo by Sardaka 09-59, 31 July 2007 (UTC).jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1793 | 1976 | active | Australia's first lighthouse[4] |
| Vaucluse | Vaucluse Bay Range Front Light | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1884 | active | |||
| Vaucluse | Vaucluse Bay Range Rear Light | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1884 | active | |||
| Watsons Bay | Hornby Lighthouse | File:Hornby Light 2010.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1858 | 1933 | active | |
| Wollongong | Wollongong Breakwater Lighthouse | File:Wollongong Breakwater Lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | c.1870 | 1974 | [48] | |
| Wollongong | Wollongong Head Lighthouse | File:Flagstaff Point Lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1936 | 1936 | active | |
| Yamba | Clarence River Light | File:Clarence Head lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1866 | 1920 | active | Battery powered[49] |
Northern Territory
Most of the lighthouses in the Northern Territory were constructed by the Commonwealth Lighthouse Service during the "Golden Age of Australian Lighthouses", between 1913 and 1920. These include Cape Don Light, East Vernon Light, Emery Point Light, Cape Hotham Light and Cape Fourcroy.[50]
Of these five, three can be considered "siblings", Cape Hotham Light, Emery Point Light and Cape Fourcroy Light. They are almost identical white square skeletal towers, and they also share a similar light characteristic, three flashes every 15 second (Fl.(3) 15s).[51]
| Location | Name | Image | Coordinates | Year established |
Year automated |
Status | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cobourg Peninsula | Cape Don Light | File:Cape Don Lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1917 | 1983 | active | solar powered[52] |
| Cape Fourcroy | Cape Fourcroy Light | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | active | ||||
| Clarence Strait | Cape Hotham Light | File:Cape Hotham, 1928.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1928 | active | ||
| East Vernon Island | East Vernon Light | File:East Vernon Light historic.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1928 | active | ||
| Larrakeyah Barracks | Emery Point Light | File:Emery Point Light, 1915.JPG | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1900 | active | ||
| Cox Peninsula | Point Charles Light | File:Charles Point Lighthouse cropped.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1893 | 1933 | active | survived cyclone Tracy;[53] solar powered[54] |
Queensland
Most lighthouses in Queensland were constructed in well established groups:
- Two lighthouses constructed using bolted prefabricated segments of cast iron: Sandy Cape Light and Bustard Head Light.[55]
- Eight lighthouses made of hardwood frame clad with corrugated iron: Little Sea Hill Light, Grassy Hill Light, Goods Island Light, Bay Rock Light, Old Caloundra Light, North Point Hummock Light (demolished), Gatcombe Head Light (demolished) and Bulwer Island Light.[56]
- Seven concrete towers erected between 1964 and 1979: Cape Capricorn Light, New Caloundra Light, Point Danger Light, New Burnett Heads Light, Fitzroy Island Light, Point Cartwright Light and Archer Point Light.[56]
| Location | Name | Image | Coordinates | Year established |
Year automated |
Status | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Woody Island | Middle Bluff Lighthouse | File:Woody Island Lighthouses & Ancillary Building Site.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1866 | 1959 | 1987 | Gas, from 1985 solar power[57] |
| Big Woody Island | North Bluff Lighthouse | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1867 | 1959 | 1987 | Gas, from 1985 solar power[57] | |
| Booby Island | Booby Island Light | File:Booby Island Light and No 2 Quarters, 1957.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1890 | 1991 | active | generator powered[58] |
| Bulwer Island | Bulwer Island Light | File:Bulwarislandlighthouse.JPG | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1912 | 1983 | not original site [59] | |
| Burnett Heads | New Burnett Heads Light | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1971 | 1971 | active | ||
| Burnett Heads | Old Burnett Heads Light | File:Old Burnett Heads Light closeup, 2010.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1873 | 1932 | 1971 | |
| Bustard Head | Bustard Head Light | File:StateLibQld 1 125971 View of the Bustard Head Lighthouse in 1932.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1869 | 1985 | active | |
| Caloundra | New Caloundra Light | File:NewCaloundra Light, 2008.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1968 | 1969 | 1997 | |
| Caloundra | Old Caloundra Light | File:Old Caloundra Light, 2008.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1896 | 1942 | 1968 | |
| Cape Bowling Green | Cape Bowling Green Light | File:Cape Bowling Green lighthouse, 2008.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1874 | 1920 | active | original moved[60] |
| Cape Capricorn | Cape Capricorn Light | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1875 | active | |||
| Cape Cleveland | Cape Cleveland Light | File:Cape Cleveland Light dusk.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1879 | active | ||
| Cape Moreton | Cape Moreton Light | File:Cape Moreton Light.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1857 | active | ||
| Cleveland | New Cleveland Point Light | File:New Cleveland Point Light, 2009.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1976 | active | ||
| Cleveland | Old Cleveland Point Light | File:Cleveland Lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1847 | 1976 | experimented with laser lighthouse in 1969[61] | |
| Cooktown | Archer Point Light | File:Archer Point Light, 2005.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1883 | 1979 | active | |
| Cooktown | Grassy Hill Light | File:Cooktown Lifghthouse, 2005.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1886 | 1927 | active | |
| Comboyuro Point | Comboyuro Point Light | File:Lighthouse at Comboyuro Point, Moreton Island, 1906.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1874 | 1954 | 1960 | Collapsed[62] |
| Cowan Cowan Point | Cowan Cowan Point Light | File:Cowan Cowan lighthouse, Moreton Island, 1899.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1873 | 1950[63] | Demolished[64] | |
| Creal Reef | Creal Reef Light | File:Creal Reef Lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1985[65] | active | ||
| Curtis Island | Sea Hill Light | File:Sea Hill Lighthouse - NW point of Curtis Island - 1873 (replaced in 1960).jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1876 | 2006 | First lighthouse now at Gladstone Maritime Museum[11] | |
| Dent Island | Dent Island Light | File:Dent Island Light.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1879 | 1987 | active | |
| Double Island Point | Double Island Point Light | File:Double Island Point lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1884 | 1992 | active | |
| Eborac Island | Eborac Island Light | File:Eborac Island Light, 2007.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | active | |||
| Fitzroy Island | Fitzroy Island Light | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1943 | 1992 | |||
| Flat Top Island | Flat Top Island Light | File:Flat Top Island Light, 1917.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1879 | 1920 | 2007 | |
| Goods Island | Goods Island Light | File:Goods Island Aerial, 1999 cropped.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1886 | active | ||
| Gulf of Carpentaria | CLS-4 Carpentaria | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1918 | 1985 | Lightship; Not in service[66] | ||
| Lady Elliot Island | Lady Elliot Island Light | File:Old Lady Elliot Lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1873 | active | ||
| Low Island | Low Isles Light | File:Low Isles Lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1878 | 1993 | active | |
| Mooloolaba | Point Cartwright Light | File:Point Cartwright Light.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1978 | 1978 | active | |
| Moreton Bay | Moreton Bay Pile Light | File:Morton Bay Pile Light.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1884[67] | 1952[68] | 1966–1967[69] | Structure destroyed in 1949[69] |
| North Reef | North Reef Light | File:North Reef Light from above.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1878 | 1978 | active | |
| Pine Islet | Pine Islet Light | File:Pine Islet Light. 2007.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1885 | 1985 | relocated; last working kerosene lighthouse in the world[70] | |
| Point Danger | Captain Cook Memorial Light | File:Point Danger lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1971 | 1971 | active | experimented with laser lighthouse in 1971[71] |
| Point Lookout | Point Lookout Light | File:StateLibQld 1 119568 Construction of the lighthouse at Point Lookout, 1932.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1932 | active | ||
| Sandy Cape | Sandy Cape Light | File:Sandy Cape Lighthouse, 2007.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1870 | 1991 | active | |
| Townsville | Bay Rock Light | File:Bay Rock Lighthouse at Townsville Maritime Museum.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1886 | 1930 | c.1992 | [72][73] |
| Townsville | Wharton Reef Light | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1915 | 1915 | 1990 | not original site [74] | |
| Wyborn Reef | Wyborn Reef Light | File:Wyborn Reef light cropped.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1938[75] | active |
South Australia
| Location | Name | Image | Coordinates | Established | Automated | Deactivated | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Althorpe Islands | Althorpe Island Lighthouse | File:Althorpe Island lighthouse, South Australia, 1900.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1879 | 1991 | active | Diesel powered[76] |
| Beachport | Cape Martin Lighthouse | File:BeachportLighthouse.JPG | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1960 | active | ||
| Cape Banks | Cape Banks Lighthouse | File:Cape Banks lighthouse.JPG | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1883 | 1928 | active | |
| Cape Borda | Cape Borda Lighthouse | File:Cape Borda Lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1858 | 1989 | active | |
| Cape Donington | Cape Donington Lighthouse | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1878 | active | |||
| Cape du Couedic | Cape du Couedic Lighthouse | File:Phare de Cap Couedic.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1909 | 1957 | active | |
| Cape Jaffa | Cape Jaffa Lighthouse | File:CapeJaffaLH 0666.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1872 | 1973 | Screw pile; Not original site[77] | |
| Cape Jervis | Cape Jervis Lighthouse | File:Cape Jervis.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1871 | 1972 | active | |
| Cape Spencer | Cape Spencer Lighthouse | File:Cape Spencer Lighthouse.JPG | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1950 | 1975 | active | |
| Cape St Albans | Cape St Albans Lighthouse | File:Cape St Albans Lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1908 | 1908 | active | |
| Cape Willoughby | Cape Willoughby Lighthouse | File:Cape Willoughby Light.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1852 | 1974 | 2003 | South Australia's first lighthouse[78] |
| Corny Point | Corny Point Lighthouse | File:Corny Point Lighthouse.JPG | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1882 | 1920 | active | |
| Marino | Marino Rocks Lighthouse | File:Marino CP Light.JPG | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1962 | 1962 | active | |
| Penguin Island | Penguin Island Lighthouse | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1878 | 1918 | 1960 | Abandoned[79] | |
| Point Lowly | Point Lowly Lighthouse | File:Point Lowly Lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1883 | 1973 | 1993 | |
| Point Malcolm | Point Malcolm Lighthouse | File:Malcom Point lighthouse, Lake Alexandrina.JPG | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1878 | 1931 | Australia's only inland lighthouse; reactivated[3][80] | |
| Port Adelaide | Port Adelaide Lighthouse | File:Port Adelaide Lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1869 | 1901 | Not original site; lit on Saturdays[80][81] | |
| Port Macdonnell | Cape Northumberland Lighthouse | File:Cape Northumberland lighthouse - State Library of South Australia PRG 280-1-40-198.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1882 | 1990 | active | |
| Cape Northumberland | Old Macdonnell Lighthouse | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1859 | 1881 | destroyed[82] | ||
| Robe | Robe Lighthouse | File:Robe Lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1972 | 1972 | active | |
| Semaphore | Semaphore Timeball | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1875 | active | |||
| South Neptune Island | South Neptune Island Lighthouse | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1901 | c.1990 | active | New tower[83] | |
| Tiparra Reef | Tipara Reef Screw Pile | File:Tipara Reef Screw Pile.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1877 | 1995 | Not original site[84] | |
| Troubridge Hill | Troubridge Hill Lighthouse | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1980 | 1980 | active | ||
| Troubridge Island | Troubridge Island Lighthouse | File:Troubridge Island Lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1856 | 1981 | 2001 | Under threat from erosion[85] |
| West Cape | West Cape Lighthouse | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1980 | 1980 | active | Built of stainless steel[86] | |
| Wonga Shoal | Wonga Shoal Lighthouse | File:Wonga Shoal Light.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1901 | 1912 | Destroyed[87] |
Tasmania
| Location | Name | Image | Coordinates | Established | Automated | Deactivated | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bluff Hill | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1982 | 1982 | active | |||
| Cape Bruny | Cape Bruny Lighthouse | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1838 | 1996 | |||
| Cape Forrestier | Cape Forrestier Lighthouse | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1971 | Dismantled[14] | |||
| Cape Sorell | Cape Sorell Lighthouse | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1899 | active | |||
| Cape Tourville | Cape Tourville Lighthouse | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1971 | 1971 | active | ||
| Cape Wickham | Cape Wickham Lighthouse | File:Cape Wickham Lighthouse 1887.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1861 | 1918 | active | Tallest in Australia |
| Currie Harbour | Currie Lighthouse | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1880 | active | deactivated 1989–1995[88] | ||
| Deal Island | Deal Island Lighthouse | File:Deal Island.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1848 | 1921 | 1992 | Australia's highest lighthouse[89] |
| Eddystone Point | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1889 | active | ||||
| Goose Island | Goose Island Lighthouse | File:Goose Island Lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1846 | 1931 | active | |
| Hells Gate | Bonnet Island Lighthouse | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1892 | 1910 | active | ||
| Hells Gate | Entrance Island Lighthouse | File:Entrance Island Lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1892 | 1910 | active | |
| Highland Bluff (new) | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | active | |||||
| Highland Bluff (old) | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1924 | |||||
| Iron Pot | Iron Pot Lighthouse | File:Iron Pot Lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1832 | active | Tasmania's first lighthouse[90] | |
| Low Head | Low Head Lighthouse | File:Low Head Lighthouse-NW.JPG | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1833 | 1995 | active | Tasmania's second lighthouse[91] |
| Low Head | Middle Channel Lighthouse | File:MiddleChannelLight 2048px.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1882 | 1955 | active | |
| Low Head | She Oak Point Lighthouse | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1882 | 1955 | active | ||
| Maatsuyker Island | Maatsuyker Island Lighthouse | File:Aranjee x-mas Matt2.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1891 | 1996 | Last staffed lighthouse; Australia's most southern[92][93] | |
| Mersey Bluff | File:Devonport Mersey Bluff Lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1889 | 1920 | active | ||
| Point Home Lookout | Point Home Lookout Lighthouse | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1971 | 1971 | active | ||
| Rocky Cape | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1968 | 1968 | active | |||
| Round Hill Point | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1923 | 1980 | active | |||
| Sandy Cape | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1953 | active | ||||
| Swan Island | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1845 | 1985 | active | |||
| Table Cape | Table Cape Lighthouse | File:Table Cape Lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1888 | 1920 | active | |
| Tasman Island | Tasman Island Lighthouse | File:Tasman Island Lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1906 | 1976 | active | |
| West Point | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1916 | 1982 | Destroyed[94] |
Victoria
| Location | Name | Image | Coordinates | Established | Automated | Deactivated | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aireys Inlet | Split Point Lighthouse | File:SplitPoint 0072.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1891 | 1919 | active | |
| Cape Liptrap | Cape Liptrap Lighthouse | File:Cape Liptrap Lighthouse, Australia.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1913 | 1913 | active | |
| Cape Nelson | Cape Nelson Lighthouse | File:Cape Nelson lighthouse 2.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1884 | 1995 | active | |
| Cape Otway | Cape Otway Lighthouse | File:Cape Otway.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1848 | 1994 | Replaced with a solar powered light tower[95] | |
| Cape Schanck | Cape Schanck Lighthouse | File:Cape schanck lighthouse-1-web.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1859 | active | ||
| Citadel Island | Citadel Island Lighthouse | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1913 | 1982 | Solar powered | ||
| Cliffy Island | Cliffy Island Lighthouse | File:Cliffy Island Lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1884 | 1971 | active | Solar powered[96] |
| Gabo Island | Gabo Island Lighthouse | File:Gabo Island Lighthouse 1917.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1853 | 1993 | active | Solar powered[97] |
| Gellibrand Shoal | Gellibrand Pile Light | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1906 | 1976 | Destroyed[98] | ||
| Griffiths Island | Port Fairy Lighthouse | File:Port fairy lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1859 | active | Wind powered[99] | |
| Lady Bay Lower | Lady Bay Lower Lighthouse | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1854 | active | |||
| Lady Bay Upper | Lady Bay Upper Lighthouse | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1859 | active | Not original site[100] | ||
| McCrae | Eastern Lighthouse | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1854 | 1994 | |||
| Point Hicks | Point Hicks Lighthouse | File:Point Hicks Lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1890 | active | ||
| Point Lonsdale | Point Lonsdale Lighthouse | File:Point Lonsdale lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1863 | active | ||
| Portland | Whaler's Bluff Lighthouse | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1889 | active | |||
| Portland | Portland Bay Lighthouse | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1859 | 1889 | |||
| Port Melbourne | Port Melbourne Front Light | File:KIds on Beacon Cove Lighthouse (50411151171).jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1924 | |||
| Port Melbourne | Port Melbourne Rear Light | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1924 | active | |||
| Port Phillip | South Channel Pile Light | File:South Channel Pile Light.JPG | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1874 | 1985 | relocated and reactivated[101] | |
| Port Phillip | West Channel Pile Light | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1881 | active | |||
| Queenscliff | Queenscliff High Light | File:Queenscliff Black Lighthouses.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1843 | active | Built of bluestone[102] | |
| Queenscliff | Queenscliff Low Light | File:Queenscliff Lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1854 | active | Not original site[103] | |
| Warrnambool | Lady Bay Upper Lighthouse | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1858 | active | |||
| Williamstown | Timeball Lighthouse | File:WilliamstownTimeballTower.JPG | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1840 | 1934 | 1987 | Light deactivated; time ball active[104] |
| Wilsons Promontory | Wilsons Promontory Lighthouse | File:Lighthousewilsonsprom1.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1859 | 1975 | active | Furthest south on mainland[105] |
Western Australia
| Location | Name | Image | Coordinates | Established | Automated | Deactivated | Remarks |
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| Adele Island | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1951 | active | ||||
| Arthur Head | Arthur Head Lighthouse | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1851 | 1902 | Demolished[106] | ||
| Bessieres Island Lighthouse | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1913 | active | ||||
| Breaksea Island | Breaksea Island Lighthouse | File:Breaksea Island Lighthouse, April 2022 03.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1858 | active | ||
| Bunbury | Casuarina Point Lighthouse | File:Phare de Bunbury.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1870 | active | ||
| Caffarelli Island | Caffarelli Island Lighthouse | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1967 | active | |||
| Cape Bossut | Cape Bossut Lighthouse | File:Cape Bossut.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1913 | c.1980 | demolished | |
| Cape Leeuwin | Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse | File:Cape Leeuwin lighthouse, Western Australia, 1996.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1896 | 1992 | active | |
| Cape Leveque | Cape Leveque Lighthouse | File:Cape-leveque-light.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1911 | active | ||
| Cape Naturaliste | Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse | File:Cape Naturaliste.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1903 | 1978 | active | struck by ball lightning in 1907[107] |
| Carnarvon | Babbage Island Lighthouse | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1965 | active | |||
| Cave Point | Cave Point Lighthouse | File:Cave Point Light House, April 2022 01.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1976 | 1994 | [108] | |
| Dirk Hartog Island | Cape Inscription Lighthouse | File:Cape Inscription Lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1910 | 1917 | active | |
| East Island | East Island Lighthouse | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1968 | active | |||
| Eclipse Island | Eclipse Island Lighthouse | File:Eclipse Island Lighthouse, April 2022 06.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1926 | 1976 | active | replaced with beacon[109] |
| Escape Island | Escape Island Lighthouse | File:Escape Island lighthouse, Jurien Bay, Western Australia, September 2023 07.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1930 | active | ||
| Fremantle | North Mole Lighthouse | File:Fremantle North Mole Lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1906 | active | ||
| Fremantle | South Mole Lighthouse | File:South Mole Light.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1903 | active | ||
| Gantheaume Point | Gantheaume Point Lighthouse | File:Broome - Gantheaume Point 04.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1905 | 1922 | active | |
| Guilderton | Guilderton Lighthouse | File:Guilderton Lighthouse 2.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1983 | 1983 | active | |
| Hillarys | File:Hilarys Lighthouse.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1986 | active | |||
| Jarman Island | Jarman Island Lighthouse | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1888 | 1917 | 1985 | [110] | |
| Legendre Island | Legendre Island Lighthouse | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1927 | 1989 | active | ||
| Geraldton | Moore Point Lighthouse | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1878 | 1985 | active | ||
| Mosman Park | Buckland Hill Lighthouse | File:Buckland Hill lighthouse - panoramio.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | c.1970 | active | ||
| North West Cape | North West Cape Light | File:Harold E Holt Naval Base.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1967 | active | on radio tower[111] | |
| Pelsart Island | Pelsart Island Lighthouse | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1974 | active | |||
| Point Cloates | Point Cloates Lighthouse | File:Point Cloates.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1910 | 1933 | 1936 | Ruins, heritage listed[112] |
| Point King | Point King Lighthouse | File:Old forts Lhouse alb.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1858 | 1911 | Ruins, heritage listed[113] | |
| Quobba Point | Quobba Point Light | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1950 | active | |||
| Rottnest Island | Bathurst Lighthouse | File:Bathurst lighthouse, Rottnest-4.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1900 | 1986 | active | |
| Rottnest Island | Wadjemup Lighthouse | File:Wadjemup Lighthouse, Rottnest-11.jpg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1851 | 1986 | active | Australia's first rotating beam lighthouse[114] |
| Woodman Point | Woodman Light | File:WoodmanPointLighthouse.JPG | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1902 | 1955 | active |
See also
References
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Further reading
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External links
- Lighthouses Australia Inc. Template:Webarchive a non-profit organisation which aims to create a higher profile for Australian lighthouses.
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- Australian and Oceania Lighthouses A private web site by Kevin Mulcahy Script error: No such module "Unsubst". containing lists of Oceania Lighthouses with data taken from The British Admiralty vol K List of Lighthouses and Foghorns.
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