List of lighthouses and lightvessels in Australia

This is a list of lighthouses and lightvessels in Australia.

Australia has a coastline of 25,760 kilometres (16,010 mi), with over 350 lighthouses and navigational aids around the Australian coastline, and a single inland lighthouse, the Point Malcolm lighthouse.

The first lighthouse was Macquarie Lighthouse, which was lit in 1793 as a tripod mounted wood and coal fired beacon. The last manned lighthouse was Maatsuyker Island Lighthouse, off the south coast of Tasmania, which was automated in 1996.

Listing

The lighthouses and lightvessels of Australia are listed in the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency List of Lights publication 111. They are listed by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office on volume K of the Admiralty List of Lights & Fog Signals. The ARLHS World List of Lights lists them with the prefix "AUS".

On The Lighthouse Directory, the lighthouses of Australia are listed according to their location:

• Coral Sea Islands Territory
• New South Wales, including Cape St George Lighthouse which is in Jervis Bay Territory.
• Northern Territory
• Queensland's East Coast, from Townsville southwards
• Far North Queensland
• South Australia
• Tasmania
• Victoria
• Western Australia

Another listing is held by Lighthouses of Australia Inc., which lists lighthouses by state

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

Another list exists at Australian Lighthouses, a website which includes both an A-Z list and a list by state.

A list also exists at SeaSide Lights, which lists lighthouses by state:

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

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". 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 and Water or the New South Wales Department of Lands. In the Northern Territory some of the lighthouses are managed by the Darwin Port Corporation. In South Australia some of the stations are managed by the Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. In Tasmania, many lighthouses are managed by the Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service. In Victoria, harbour aids are maintained by the Port of Melbourne Corporation in the Melbourne area and by the Victorian Regional Channels Authority elsewhere, while parklands are mostly managed by Parks Victoria. In Western Australia some of the stations are managed by the Department of Environment and Conservation.

Lighthouses by state or territory

Jervis Bay Territory

Location	Name	Image	Coordinates	Established	Automated	Deactivated	Remarks
Jervis Bay Village	Cape St George Lighthouse	100px		1860		1889	Destroyed

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	Established	Automated	Deactivated	Remarks
Balgowlah Heights	Grotto Point Light	100px		1911		active
Ballina	Richmond River Light	100px		1866	1920	active
Bradleys Head	Bradleys Head Light	100px		1905		active
Burrewarra Point	Burrewarra Point Light	100px		1974	1974	active	Solar powered
Cape Byron	Cape Byron Light			1901		active
Cremorne Point	Robertson Point Light	100px		1910		active
Crowdy Head	Crowdy Head Light	100px		1878	1928	active
Culburra Beach	Crookhaven Heads Light	100px		1882		active	Solar Powered
Fingal Head	Fingal Head Light	100px		1872	1920	active
Fort Denison	Fort Denison Light			1913		active
Green Cape	Green Cape Lighthouse	100px		1883	1983	1997	replaced with solar powered light tower
Kiama	Kiama Light			1887	1920	active
Kurnell	Cape Bailey Light	100px		1950		active
Montague Island	Montague Island Light	100px		1881	1986	active	Solar powered
Nelson Bay	Nelson Head Light	100px		1872	1984	2003
Newcastle	Nobbys Head Light	100px		1854	1935	active
Norah Head	Norah Head Light	100px		1903	1995	active
Palm Beach	Barrenjoey Head Lighthouse	100px		1855	1932	active
Mosman	Parriwi Head Light			1911		active
Point Perpendicular	Point Perpendicular Light	100px		1899		1993	replaced with solar powered light tower
Point Stephens	Point Stephens Light	100px		1862	1989	active	Solar powered
Shark Island	Shark Island Light			1913		active
Smoky Cape	Smoky Cape Lighthouse	100px		1891	1988	active
Solitary Islands	North Solitary Island Light	100px		1975		active	Fibreglass structure; Solar powered
Solitary Islands	South Solitary Island Light	100px		1880	1975	active	Solar powered
Seal Rocks	Sugarloaf Point Light	100px		1875	1987	active	External stairs
Sydney Harbour	Eastern Channel Pile Light	100px		1924		active
Sydney Harbour	Western Channel Pile Light			1924		active
Port Macquarie	Tacking Point Lighthouse	100px		1879	1919	active
Ulladulla	Warden Head Light			1873	1920	active	Battery powered, relocated
Vaucluse	Macquarie Lighthouse	100px		1793	1976	active	Australia's first lighthouse
Vaucluse	Vaucluse Bay Range Front Light			1884		active
Vaucluse	Vaucluse Bay Range Rear Light			1884		active
Watsons Bay	Hornby Lighthouse			1858	1933	active
Wollongong	Wollongong Breakwater Lighthouse	100px		c.1870		1974
Wollongong	Wollongong Head Lighthouse	100px		1936	1936	active
Yamba	Clarence River Light	100px		1866	1920	active	Battery powered

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.

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).

Location	Name	Image	Coordinates	Established	Automated	Deactivated	Remarks
Cobourg Peninsula	Cape Don Light			1917	1983	active	solar powered
Cape Fourcroy	Cape Fourcroy Light					active
Clarence Strait	Cape Hotham Light	100px		1928		active
East Vernon Island	East Vernon Light	100px		1928		active
Larrakeyah Barracks	Emery Point Light	100px		1900		active
Cox Peninsula	Point Charles Light	100px		1893	1933	active	survived cyclone Tracy; solar powered

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.
• 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.
• 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.

Location	Name	Image	Coordinates	Established	Automated	Deactivated	Remarks
Booby Island	Booby Island Light			1890	1991	active	generator powered
Bulwer Island	Bulwer Island Light	100px		1912		1983	not original site
Burnett Heads	New Burnett Heads Light			1971	1971	active
Burnett Heads	Old Burnett Heads Light	100px		1873	1932	1971
Bustard Head	Bustard Head Light	100px		1869	1985	active
Caloundra	New Caloundra Light	100px		1968	1969	1997
Caloundra	Old Caloundra Light	100px		1896	1942	1968
Cape Bowling Green	Cape Bowling Green Light	100px		1874	1920	active	original moved
Cape Capricorn	Cape Capricorn Light			1875		active
Cape Cleveland	Cape Cleveland Light	100px		1879		active
Cape Moreton	Cape Moreton Light			1857		active
Cleveland	New Cleveland Point Light	100px		1976		active
Cleveland	Old Cleveland Point Light	100px		1847		1976	experimented with laser lighthouse in 1969
Cooktown	Archer Point Light	100px		1883	1979	active
Cooktown	Grassy Hill Light	100px		1886	1927	active
Comboyuro Point	Comboyuro Point Light	100px		1874	1954	1960	Collapsed
Cowan Cowan Point	Cowan Cowan Point Light	100px		1873	1950		Demolished
Creal Reef	Creal Reef Light	100px		1985		active
Curtis Island	Sea Hill Light	100px		1876		2006	First lighthouse now at Gladstone Maritime Museum
Dent Island	Dent Island Light	100px		1879	1987	active
Double Island Point	Double Island Point Light			1884	1992	active
Eborac Island	Eborac Island Light	100px				active
Fitzroy Island	Fitzroy Island Light			1943		1992
Flat Top Island	Flat Top Island Light	100px		1879	1920	2007
Goods Island	Goods Island Light	100px		1886		active
Gulf of Carpentaria	CLS-4 Carpentaria			1918		1985	Lightship; Not in service
Lady Elliot Island	Lady Elliot Island Light	100px		1873		active
Low Island	Low Isles Light	100px		1878	1993	active
Mooloolaba	Point Cartwright Light	100px		1978	1978	active
Moreton Bay	Moreton Bay Pile Light	100px		1884	1952	1966–1967	Structure destroyed in 1949
North Reef	North Reef Light	100px		1878	1978	active
Pine Islet	Pine Islet Light	100px		1885		1985	relocated; last working kerosene lighthouse in the world
Point Danger	Captain Cook Memorial Light			1971	1971	active	experimented with laser lighthouse in 1971
Point Lookout	Point Lookout Light	100px		1932		active
Sandy Cape	Sandy Cape Light	100px		1870	1991	active
Townsville	Bay Rock Light	100px		1886	1930	c.1992
Townsville	Wharton Reef Light			1915	1915	1990	not original site
Wyborn Reef	Wyborn Reef Light	100px			1938	active

South Australia

Location	Name	Image	Coordinates	Established	Automated	Deactivated	Remarks
Althorpe Islands	Althorpe Island Lighthouse	100px		1879	1991	active	Diesel powered
Beachport	Cape Martin Lighthouse	100px		1960		active
Cape Banks	Cape Banks Lighthouse	100px		1883	1928	active
Cape Borda	Cape Borda Lighthouse			1858	1989	active
Cape Donington	Cape Donington Lighthouse			1878		active
Cape du Couedic	Cape du Couedic Lighthouse	100px		1909	1957	active
Cape Jaffa	Cape Jaffa Lighthouse	100px		1872		1973	Screw pile; Not original site
Cape Jervis	Cape Jervis Lighthouse	100px		1871	1972	active
Cape Spencer	Cape Spencer Lighthouse	100px		1950	1975	active
Cape St Albans	Cape St Albans Lighthouse			1908	1908	active
Cape Willoughby	Cape Willoughby Lighthouse	100px		1852	1974	2003	South Australia's first lighthouse
Corny Point	Corny Point Lighthouse	100px		1882	1920	active
Marino	Marino Rocks Lighthouse	100px		1962	1962	active
Penguin Island	Penguin Island Lighthouse			1878	1918	1960	Abandoned
Point Lowly	Point Lowly Lighthouse			1883	1973	1993
Point Malcolm	Point Malcolm Lighthouse	100px		1878		1931	Australia's only inland lighthouse; reactivated
Port Adelaide	Port Adelaide Lighthouse	100px		1869		1901	Not original site; lit on Saturdays
Port Macdonnell	Cape Northumberland Lighthouse			1882	1990	active
Cape Northumberland	Old Macdonnell Lighthouse			1859		1881	destroyed
Robe	Robe Lighthouse	100px		1972	1972	active
South Neptune Island	South Neptune Island Lighthouse			1901	c.1990	active	New tower
Tiparra Reef	Tipara Reef Screw Pile	100px		1877		1995	Not original site
Troubridge Hill	Troubridge Hill Lighthouse			1980	1980	active
Troubridge Island	Troubridge Island Lighthouse	100px		1856	1981	2001	Under threat from erosion
West Cape	West Cape Lighthouse			1980	1980	active	Build of stainless steel
Wonga Shoal	Wonga Shoal Lighthouse	100px		1901		1912	Destroyed

Tasmania

Location	Name	Image	Coordinates	Established	Automated	Deactivated	Remarks
Bluff Hill				1982	1982	active
Cape Bruny	Cape Bruny Lighthouse			1838		1996
Cape Forrestier	Cape Forrestier Lighthouse					1971	Dismantled
Cape Sorell	Cape Sorell Lighthouse			1899		active
Cape Tourville	Cape Tourville Lighthouse			1971	1971	active
Cape Wickham	Cape Wickham Lighthouse	100px		1861	1918	active	Tallest in Australia
Currie Harbour	Currie Lighthouse			1880		active	deactivated 1989–1995
Deal Island	Deal Island Lighthouse	100px		1848	1921	1992	Australia's highest lighthouse
Eddystone Point				1889		active
Goose Island	Goose Island Lighthouse	100px		1846	1931	active
Hells Gate	Bonnet Island Lighthouse			1892	1910	active
Hells Gate	Entrance Island Lighthouse	100px		1892	1910	active
Highland Bluff (new)						active
Highland Bluff (old)				1924
Iron Pot	Iron Pot Lighthouse	100px		1832		active	Tasmania's first lighthouse
Low Head	Low Head Lighthouse			1833	1995	active	Tasmania's second lighthouse
Low Head	Middle Channel Lighthouse			1882	1955	active
Low Head	She Oak Point Lighthouse			1882	1955	active
Maatsuyker Island	Maatsuyker Island Lighthouse	100px		1891		1996	Last manned lighthouse; Australia's most southern;
Mersey Bluff		100px		1889	1920	active
Point Home Lookout	Point Home Lookout Lighthouse			1971	1971	active
Rocky Cape				1968	1968	active
Round Hill Point				1923	1980	active
Sandy Cape				1953		active
Swan Island				1845	1985	active
Table Cape	Table Cape Lighthouse	100px		1888	1920	active
Tasman Island	Tasman Island Lighthouse	100px		1906	1976	active
West Point				1916		1982	Destroyed

Victoria

Location	Name	Image	Coordinates	Established	Automated	Deactivated	Remarks
Aireys Inlet	Split Point Lighthouse			1891	1919	active
Cape Liptrap	Cape Liptrap Lighthouse	100px		1913	1913	active
Cape Nelson	Cape Nelson Lighthouse	100px		1884	1995	active
Cape Otway	Cape Otway Lighthouse	100px		1848		1994	Replaced with a solar powered light tower
Cape Schanck	Cape Schanck Lighthouse	100px		1859		active
Citadel Island	Citadel Island Lighthouse			1913		1982	Solar powered
Cliffy Island	Cliffy Island Lighthouse	100px		1884	1971	active	Solar powered
Gabo Island	Gabo Island Lighthouse	100px		1853	1993	active	Solar powered
Gellibrand Shoal	Gellibrand Pile Light			1906		1976	Destroyed
Griffiths Island	Port Fairy Lighthouse	100px		1859		active	Wind powered
Lady Bay Lower	Lady Bay Lower Lighthouse			1854		active
Lady Bay Upper	Lady Bay Upper Lighthouse			1859		active	Not original site
McCrae	Eastern Lighthouse			1854		1994
Point Hicks	Point Hicks Lighthouse	100px		1890		active
Point Lonsdale	Point Lonsdale Lighthouse	100px		1863		active
Portland	Whaler's Bluff Lighthouse			1889		active
Portland	Portland Bay Lighthouse			1859		1889
Port Melbourne	Port Melbourne Front Light			1924
Port Melbourne	Port Melbourne Rear Light			1924		active
Port Phillip	South Channel Pile Light	100px		1874		1985	relocated and reactivated
Port Phillip	West Channel Pile Light			1881		active
Queenscliff	Queenscliff High Light	100px		1843		active	Built of bluestone
Queenscliff	Queenscliff Low Light	100px		1854		active	Not original site
Warrnambool	Lady Bay Upper Lighthouse			1858		active
Williamstown	Timeball Lighthouse	100px		1840	1934	1987	Light deactivated; time ball active
Wilsons Promontory	Wilsons Promontory Lighthouse	100px		1859	1975	active	Furthest south on mainland

Western Australia

Location	Name	Image	Coordinates	Established	Automated	Deactivated	Remarks
Adele Island				1951		active
Arthur Head	Arthur Head Lighthouse			1851		1902	Demolished
	Bessieres Island Lighthouse			1913		active
Breaksea Island	Breaksea Island Lighthouse			1858		active
Bunbury	Casuarina Point Lighthouse	100px		1870		active
Caffarelli Island	Caffarelli Island Lighthouse			1967		active
Cape Bossut	Cape Bossut Lighthouse	100px		1913		c.1980	demolished
Cape Leeuwin	Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse	100px		1896	1992	active
Cape Leveque	Cape Leveque Lighthouse	100px		1911		active
Cape Naturaliste	Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse	100px		1873	1978	active	struck by ball lightning in 1907
Carnarvon	Babbage Island Lighthouse			1965		active
Cave Point	Cave Point Lighthouse			1976		1994
Dirk Hartog Island	Cape Inscription Lighthouse	100px		1910	1917	active
East Island	East Island Lighthouse			1968		active
Eclipse Island	Eclipse Island Lighthouse			1926	1976	active	replaced with beacon
Escape Island	Escape Island Lighthouse			1930		active
Fremantle	North Mole Lighthouse	100px		1906		active
Fremantle	South Mole Lighthouse	100px		1903		active
Gantheaume Point	Gantheaume Point Lighthouse			1905	1922	active
Guilderton	Guilderton Lighthouse			1983	1983	active
Hillarys		100px		1986		active
Jarman Island	Jarman Island Lighthouse			1888	1917	1985
Legendre Island	Legendre Island Lighthouse			1927	1989	active
Geraldton	Moore Point Lighthouse			1878	1985	active
Mosman Park	Buckland Hill Lighthouse			c.1970		active
North West Cape	North West Cape Light			1967		active	on radio tower
Pelsart Island	Pelsart Island Lighthouse			1974		active
Point Cloates	Point Cloates Lighthouse	100px		1910	1933	1936	Ruins, heritage listed
Point King	Point King Lighthouse			1858		1911	Ruins, heritage listed
Quobba Point	Quobba Point Light			1950		active
Rottnest Island	Bathurst Lighthouse	100px		1900	1986	active
Rottnest Island	Wadjemup Lighthouse	100px		1851	1986	active	Australia's first rotating beam lighthouse
Woodman Point	Woodman Light	100px		1902	1955	active

External links

• Lighthouses Australia Inc. a non-profit organisation which aims to create a higher profile for Australian lighthouses.
• West Australian Lighthouse website
• Australian and Oceania Lighthouses A private web site by Kevin vk2ce containing lists of Oceania Lighthouses with data taken from Th British Admiralty vol K List of Lighthouses and Foghorns.