List of Lighthouses and Lightvessels in Australia - Listing

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

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

Another list exists at Australian Lighthouses, a website which includes a 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.

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