Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Cape Byron Light, also called Cape Byron Lightstation, is an active heritage-listed lighthouse and now interpretative centre, interpretative space, maritime museum, administration office, retail building, accommodation, tourist attraction and visitor attraction located at Cape Byron on the Far North Coast of New South Wales, Australia. It was ...
Cape Byron is the easternmost point of the mainland of Australia, located in New South Wales. [1] It is about 3 km (1.9 mi) east of the town of Byron Bay, New South Wales and projects into the Pacific Ocean at 28.6335° S, 153.6383° E.
The lighthouse is idiosyncratic in detail with its decorative domed entrance and pediments. Other major lighthouses attributed to Harding's design are Point Perpendicular Lighthouses (1899) and Cape Byron (1901). These lighthouses are comparatively similar in style and construction method to those of Norah Head and the three make a significant ...
One of the most challenging of Cape Cod's lighthouses to visit is Race Point Light in Provincetown. On May 19, in the photo, the light can be seen from a trail at Hatches Harbor.
The Cape Fear region is home to three of the eight lighthouses in North Carolina.
Cape Byron Lighthouse Looking south from the lighthouse along Tallow Beach Wategos Beach with Julian Rocks out to sea Byron Bay with sugar cane burning in the distance. Byron Bay (Minjungbal: Cavvanbah) is a beachside town located in the far-northeastern corner of New South Wales, Australia (in Bundjalung Country).
This is a list of lighthouses and lightvessels in Australia.. Australia has a coastline of 25,760 kilometres (16,010 mi), [1] with over 350 lighthouses and navigational aids around the Australian coastline, [2] and a single inland lighthouse, the Point Malcolm lighthouse.
The first formal recommendation to construct the lighthouse was made by the Newcastle Marine Board, just prior to its abolition, [2] in 1897. [4] The lighthouse was designed in a style similar to the style of James Barnet, by his successor Charles Assinder Harding, who also designed Cape Byron Light and Point Perpendicular Light. [5]