Point Lookout Light, Australia
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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 lens (optics), lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways. Ligh ...
on Point Lookout, a
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on
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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 A pilot station is an onshore headquarters for maritime pilots, or a place where pilots can be hired from. To get from a pilot station to an approaching ship, pilots need to use fast vessels to arrive in time, i.e. a pilot boat. History Histor ...
was built in 1825 elsewhere on the island, on Amity Point, lighting the South Passage into
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. In 1848 this pilot station was also moved. A lighthouse on Point Lookout was finally constructed in 1932, the first settlement at the point. The light source was a
carbide lamp A carbide lamp or acetylene gas lamp is a simple lamp that produces and burns 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 beac ...
operated by
acetylene gas Acetylene (systematic name: ethyne) is a chemical compound with the formula and structure . It is a hydrocarbon and the simplest alkyne. This colorless gas is widely used as a fuel and a chemical building block. It is unstable in its pure for ...
, 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

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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 ...


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* Lighthouses completed in 1932 Lighthouses in Queensland 1932 establishments in Australia Buildings and structures in Redland City {{Australia-lighthouse-stub