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 first lighthouse was Macquarie Lighthouse, which was lit in 1793 as a tripod mounted wood and coal fired beacon. The last staffed lighthouse was Maatsuyker Island Lighthouse, off the south coast of Tasmania, which was automated in 1996.

Listing

The lighthouses and lightvessels of Australia are listed in the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency List of Lights publication 111. They are listed by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office on volume K of the Admiralty List of Lights & Fog Signals. The ARLHS World List of Lights lists them with the prefix "AUS".
On The Lighthouse Directory, the lighthouses of Australia are listed according to their location:

Coral Sea Islands Territory
New South Wales, including Cape St George Lighthouse which is in Jervis Bay Territory.
Northern Territory
Queensland's East Coast, from Townsville southwards
Far North Queensland
South Australia
Tasmania
Victoria
Western Australia

Another listing is held by Lighthouses of Australia Inc., which lists lighthouses by state.

Another list exists at Australian Lighthouses, a website which includes both an A-Z list and a list by state.
A list also exists at SeaSide Lights, which lists lighthouses by state.

Western Australia
Northern Territory
South Australia
Queensland
New South Wales
Victoria
Tasmania

In order to be listed below, an active lighthouse has to appear at least in one of The Lighthouse Directory, Lighthouses of Australia Inc. or SeaSide Lights. Other lists mentioned above include many lights which are hard to describe as "lighthouses". Historical lighthouses were sometimes included when they are mentioned in other reliable sources.

Management

Most of the lighthouses and lightvessels in Australia are managed by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, though the AMSA usually only manages the lighting equipment, with local authorities managing the lighthouses and parklands. In New South Wales the lighthouses and parklands are mostly managed by the Department of Environment, Climate Change & Water. In the Northern Territory some of the lighthouses are managed by the Darwin Port Corporation. In South Australia some of the stations are managed by the Department for Environment & Water. In Tasmania, many lighthouses are managed by the Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service. In Victoria, harbour aids are maintained by the Port of Melbourne Corporation in the Melbourne area and by the Victorian Regional Channels Authority elsewhere, while parklands are mostly managed by Parks Victoria. In Western Australia some of the stations are managed by the Department of Parks and Wildlife.

Lighthouses by state or territory

New South Wales

There are several lighthouse siblings in the vicinity – lighthouses that were designed by the same architect around the same time, which are very similar by design. These include:

Wollongong Breakwater Lighthouse and Warden Head Light, built 1872–1873, initiated by Edward Orpen Moriarty MA MInstCE
Crowdy Head Light, Fingal Head Light, Clarence River Light, Tacking Point Lighthouse and Richmond River Light, designed by James Barnet in 1878
Point Perpendicular Light, Cape Byron Light and Norah Head Light, designed by Charles Assinder Harding
Bradleys Head Light and Robertson Point Light
The "Disney Castles", Grotto Point Light, Parriwi Head Light, Vaucluse Bay Range Front Light and Vaucluse Bay Range Rear Light, built 1910–1911 by Maurice Festu
The "Wedding Cakes", Eastern Channel Pile Light and Western Channel Pile Light built in 1924

Location	Name	Image	Coordinates	Year established	Year automated	Status	Remarks
Balgowlah Heights	Grotto Point Light			1911		active
Ballina	Richmond River Light			1866	1920	active
Bradleys Head	Bradleys Head Light			1905		active
Burrewarra Point	Burrewarra Point Light			1974	1974	active	Solar powered
Cape Byron	Cape Byron Light			1901		active
Cremorne Point	Robertson Point Light			1910		active
Crowdy Head	Crowdy Head Light			1878	1928	active
Culburra Beach	Crookhaven Heads Light			1882		Inactive	Solar powered
Fingal Head	Fingal Head Light			1872	1920	active
Fort Denison	Fort Denison Light			1913		active
Green Cape	Green Cape Lighthouse			1883	1983	1997	replaced with solar powered light tower
Kiama	Kiama Light			1887	1920	active
Kurnell	Cape Bailey Light			1950		active
Montague Island	Montague Island Light			1881	1986	active	Solar powered
Mosman	Parriwi Head Light			1911		active
Nelson Bay	Nelson Head Light			1872	1984	2003
Newcastle	Nobbys Head Light			1854	1935	active
Norah Head	Norah Head Light			1903	1995	active
North Solitary Island	North Solitary Island Light			1975		active	Fibreglass structure; solar powered
Palm Beach	Barrenjoey Head Lighthouse			1855	1932	active
Point Perpendicular	Point Perpendicular Light			1899		1993	replaced with solar powered light tower
Point Stephens	Point Stephens Light			1862	1989	active	Solar powered
Port Jackson	Eastern Channel Pile Light			1924		active
Port Jackson	Western Channel Pile Light			1924		active
Port Macquarie	Tacking Point Lighthouse			1879	1919	active
Shark Island	Shark Island Light			1913		active
Smoky Cape	Smoky Cape Lighthouse			1891	1988	active
Seal Rocks	Sugarloaf Point Light			1875	1987	active	External stairs
South Solitary Island	South Solitary Island Light			1880	1975	active	Solar powered
Ulladulla	Warden Head Light			1873	1920	active	Battery powered, relocated
Vaucluse	Macquarie Lighthouse			1793	1976	active	Australia's first lighthouse
Vaucluse	Vaucluse Bay Range Front Light			1884		active
Vaucluse	Vaucluse Bay Range Rear Light			1884		active
Watsons Bay	Hornby Lighthouse			1858	1933	active
Wollongong	Wollongong Breakwater Lighthouse			c.1870		1974
Wollongong	Wollongong Head Lighthouse			1936	1936	active
Yamba	Clarence River Light			1866	1920	active	Battery powered

Northern Territory

Most of the lighthouses in the Northern Territory were constructed by the Commonwealth Lighthouse Service during the "Golden Age of Australian Lighthouses", between 1913 and 1920. These include Cape Don Light, East Vernon Light, Emery Point Light, Cape Hotham Light and Cape Fourcroy.
Of these five, three can be considered "siblings", Cape Hotham Light, Emery Point Light and Cape Fourcroy Light. They are almost identical white square skeletal towers, and they also share a similar light characteristic, three flashes every 15 second.

Location	Name	Image	Coordinates	Year established	Year automated	Status	Remarks
	Cape Don Light			1917	1983	active	solar powered
Cape Fourcroy	Cape Fourcroy Light					active
Clarence Strait	Cape Hotham Light			1928		active
East Vernon Island	East Vernon Light			1928		active
	Emery Point Light			1900		active
Cox Peninsula	Point Charles Light			1893	1933	active	survived cyclone Tracy; solar powered

Queensland

Most lighthouses in Queensland were constructed in well established groups:

Two lighthouses constructed using bolted prefabricated segments of cast iron: Sandy Cape Light and Bustard Head Light.
Eight lighthouses made of hardwood frame clad with corrugated iron: Little Sea Hill Light, Grassy Hill Light, Goods Island Light, Bay Rock Light, Old Caloundra Light, North Point Hummock Light, Gatcombe Head Light and Bulwer Island Light.
Seven concrete towers erected between 1964 and 1979: Cape Capricorn Light, New Caloundra Light, Point Danger Light, New Burnett Heads Light, Fitzroy Island Light, Point Cartwright Light and Archer Point Light.

Location	Name	Image	Coordinates	Year established	Year automated	Status	Remarks
Big Woody Island	Middle Bluff Lighthouse			1866	1959	1987	Gas, from 1985 solar power
Big Woody Island	North Bluff Lighthouse			1867	1959	1987	Gas, from 1985 solar power
Booby Island	Booby Island Light			1890	1991	active	generator powered
Bulwer Island	Bulwer Island Light			1912		1983	not original site
Burnett Heads	New Burnett Heads Light			1971	1971	active
Burnett Heads	Old Burnett Heads Light			1873	1932	1971
Bustard Head	Bustard Head Light			1869	1985	active
Caloundra	New Caloundra Light			1968	1969	1997
Caloundra	Old Caloundra Light			1896	1942	1968
Cape Bowling Green	Cape Bowling Green Light			1874	1920	active	original moved
Cape Capricorn	Cape Capricorn Light			1875		active
Cape Cleveland	Cape Cleveland Light			1879		active
Cape Moreton	Cape Moreton Light			1857		active
Cleveland	New Cleveland Point Light			1976		active
Cleveland	Old Cleveland Point Light			1847		1976	experimented with laser lighthouse in 1969
Cooktown	Archer Point Light			1883	1979	active
Cooktown	Grassy Hill Light			1886	1927	active
Comboyuro Point	Comboyuro Point Light			1874	1954	1960	Collapsed
Cowan Cowan Point	Cowan Cowan Point Light			1873	1950		Demolished
Creal Reef	Creal Reef Light			1985		active
Curtis Island	Sea Hill Light			1876		2006	First lighthouse now at Gladstone Maritime Museum
Dent Island	Dent Island Light			1879	1987	active
Double Island Point	Double Island Point Light			1884	1992	active
Eborac Island	Eborac Island Light					active
Fitzroy Island	Fitzroy Island Light			1943		1992
Flat Top Island	Flat Top Island Light			1879	1920	2007
Goods Island	Goods Island Light			1886		active
Gulf of Carpentaria	CLS-4 Carpentaria			1918		1985	Lightship; not in service
Lady Elliot Island	Lady Elliot Island Light			1873		active
Low Island	Low Isles Light			1878	1993	active
Mooloolaba	Point Cartwright Light			1978	1978	active
Moreton Bay	Moreton Bay Pile Light			1884	1952	1966–1967	Structure destroyed in 1949
North Reef	North Reef Light			1878	1978	active
Pine Islet	Pine Islet Light			1885		1985	relocated; last working kerosene lighthouse in the world
Point Danger	Captain Cook Memorial Light			1971	1971	active	experimented with laser lighthouse in 1971
Point Lookout	Point Lookout Light			1932		active
Sandy Cape	Sandy Cape Light			1870	1991	active
Townsville	Bay Rock Light			1886	1930	c.1992
Townsville	Wharton Reef Light			1915	1915	1990	not original site
Wyborn Reef	Wyborn Reef Light				1938	active