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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.
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.
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).
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The plans for the lighthouse were signed on 18 March 1897. [1] The lighthouse was designed by James Barnet's successor, Charles Assinder Harding, who also later designed Cape Byron Light and Norah Head Light, in a style similar to Barnet's. Tenders were called on 15 April 1897, and by September 1897 construction has started.
Little else is known about it, except that it was the responsibility of the Third Assistant Keeper at Cape Hatteras, working under the head keeper's supervision. Tilman Smith , head keeper at Cape Hatteras from 1887 to 1897, is recorded as having lit the tower for the last time in November, 1898, after which it was shut and replaced by a small ...