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Cape Bruny Lighthouse


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      Creator(s):
Archer, John Lee

Date: 1838 -

Description: Built by Convict labour the 13 metre tower was constructed from local stone.The original light consisted of 15 lamps with parabolic reflectors, consuming a pint of sperm oil per hour. The machinery made one revolution every five minutes; the alteration from light to shade ocurred every 50 seconds. A complete modernisation took place between 1900-02, when the present lantern room and spiral staircase were installed. The light was first in use in 1838, and was the oldest continually-manned lighthouse in Australia, until automated & de-manned in 1993. Inscription above entrance door A.D. 1838.

Format: Monuments and historical sites
Object: lighthouses
Material: stone;  cement rendering

Titles:
Cape Bruny Lighthouse

Subjects: lighthouses

People/Orgs: Baudinet, William C.;  Brooks, Thomas;  Matheson, Henry;  Handley, George;  Lewis, William;  Scott, John;  King, Arthur;  Kirkwood, William;  McGuire, John;  Hickman, Arthur;  Bridgen, Richard;  McCarthy,Thomas;  Parish, James;  Mansfield, Harold;  Mitchell, Andrew;  Abbey, Tom C.;  Dickinson, Albert;  Johnstone, Max;  Lander, Herbert;  Horne, Anthony;  Gothe, George;  Nichols, William;  Armstrong, Frank;  Levings, Allen;  Smith, Denis;  Parsey, Anthony;  Cook, John

Places: Cape Bruny - Bruny Island Tasmania

Institution: Bruny Island Historical Society

Object number: BIH_00028

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