East Island Lighthouse is a
lighthouse
A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid, for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.
Lighthouses mar ...
on
East Island in the
Lacepede Islands off the north west coast of
Western Australia.
First commissioned in 1984, it is a high lattice metal tower, with the light's
focal plane
In Gaussian optics, the cardinal points consist of three pairs of points located on the optical axis of a rotationally symmetric, focal, optical system. These are the '' focal points'', the principal points, and the nodal points. For ''ideal'' ...
positioned at above
sea level. The
light characteristic is two flashes every ten seconds.
See also
*
List of lighthouses in Australia
References
Lighthouses completed in 1984
Lighthouses in Western Australia
1984 establishments in Australia
Kimberley (Western Australia)
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