Point Lookout Light is an active
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.
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on
Point Lookout, a
headland
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on
North Stradbroke Island
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Queensland
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,
Australia
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.
History
A proposal for a lighthouse and a signal station on Point Lookout were made as early as 1825.
A
pilot station
Pilot Station ( esu, Tuutalgaq) is a city in Kusilvak Census Area, Alaska, United States. The population was 568 at the 2010 census, up from 550 in 2000.
Geography
Pilot Station is located at (61.936050, -162.883403), on the northern bank of t ...
was built in 1825 elsewhere on the island, on
Amity Point
Amity is a rural town and locality in the City of Redland, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Amity had a population of 387 people.
It is known as ''Pulan Pulan'' by the traditional owners, the Quandamooka people.
Geography
Amity i ...
, lighting the
South Passage into
Moreton Bay
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.
In 1848 this pilot station was also moved.
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A lighthouse on Point Lookout was finally constructed in 1932, the first settlement at the point. The light source was a ]carbide lamp
Carbide lamps, or acetylene gas lamps, are simple lamps that produce and burn acetylene (C2H2) which is created by the reaction of calcium carbide (CaC2) with water (H2O).
Acetylene gas lamps were used to illuminate buildings, as lighthouse b ...
operated by acetylene gas
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, and a hut for storage of the gas cylinders was built at the close by beach, which was to be named Cylinder Beach for this reason.[
]
Structure and display
The lighthouse is high, made of concrete and painted white.[ The current display is three white flashes every 15 seconds (Fl.(3)W. 15s).]
See also
* List of lighthouses in Australia
This is a list of lighthouses and lightvessels in Australia.
Australia has a coastline of , with over 350 lighthouses and navigational aids around the Australian coastline, and a single inland lighthouse, the Point Malcolm lighthouse.
The firs ...
References
External links
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Lighthouses completed in 1932
Lighthouses in Queensland
1932 establishments in Australia
Buildings and structures in Redland City
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