Cape Banks Lighthouse

Cape Banks Lighthouse
The Cape Banks Lighthouse in 2010
Cape Banks Lighthouse
South Australia
Location Cape Banks
Carpenter Rocks, South Australia
Australia
Coordinates 37°53′51.4″S 140°22′35.26″E / 37.897611°S 140.3764611°E / -37.897611; 140.3764611Coordinates: 37°53′51.4″S 140°22′35.26″E / 37.897611°S 140.3764611°E / -37.897611; 140.3764611
Year first constructed 1882-83[1][2]
Year first lit 1883[1]
Automated 1928[3]
Construction limestone masonry[4]
Tower shape “round limestone tower with lantern and gallery” [5]
Markings / pattern tower painted bright orange-red, lantern white[5]
Height 15 metres (49 ft)[5][4] [lower-alpha 1]
Focal height 25 metres (82 ft)[5]
Original lens “3rd order Fresnel lens”[5]
Light source mains power
Range 18 nautical miles (33 km; 21 mi)[8]
Characteristic two white flashes every 10 s[8]
Admiralty number K2130[5]
NGA number 8080[5]
ARLHS number AUS-020[5]
Managing agent Australian Maritime Safety Authority
Heritage State heritage place[9]

Cape Banks Lighthouse is a lighthouse in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state’s south-east on the headland of Cape Banks in the gazetted locality of Carpenter Rocks about 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) north-west of the locality’s town centre.[4]

The siting of a lighthouse at Cape Banks was discussed as early as 1880 in conjunction with the rebuilding of the Cape Northumberland Lighthouse because it was suggested as a suitable site for the “optical apparatus” from the above-mentioned lighthouse to be reused and because it was a location “where so many shipping casualties have occurred.”[10]

In March 1882, construction of the new lighthouse at “the Carpenter Rocks, adjacent to Cape Banks” was announced. The proposal with a budget of £3,770 involved the reuse of the “catoptric apparatus now at Cape Northumberland lighthouse.“ The lighthouse was described as being about 9.1 metres (30 ft) high with the light’s focal plane being about 18 metres (60 ft) about the high water mark and that it would be visible as far away as 16–19 kilometres (10–12 mi).[2]

On 27 July 1882, Goss & Lambert of Mount Gambier was contracted for an amount of “about £3,000“ to build the “lighthouse, a store, and two lightkeepers' cottages.”[11]

The light was first used on 1 January 1883.[1] In May 1928, an automated light was commissioned resulting in the departure of the keeper and their family.[3] Offers for either the removal of the keepers’ cottages or for the lease of the cottages and associated land for periods of five or ten years were advertised in the press by the Commonwealth Department of Works and Railways in August 1928.[12] The cottages and the store were subsequently demolished.[4]

The lighthouse has been listed as a state heritage place on the South Australian Heritage Register since 11 November 1999. Its significance is reported as follows:[9]

The Cape Banks Lighthouse is important in the maritime history of South Australia and the establishment of navigation aids during the late 19th century. It represents developments in lighthouse technology and design of the time. The lantern house, re-used from the original Cape Northumberland Lighthouse, is of particular significance as one of only three Deville and Company lanterns remaining in Australia. Like one of the other lanterns (at Cape Borda) the lantern house at Cape Banks is of a distinctive fourteen-sided design.(HSA Assessment Report 1999)

The lighthouse also appeared on the now-defunct Register of the National Estate.[13]

As of 2005, the lighthouse was located within the boundaries of the Canunda National Park.[8]

See also

Notes and references

Notes
  1. ↑ Sources such as Rowlett and the State Library of South Australia state that the lighthouse’s height was increased to 15 metres in 1928, however photographs taken in both 1910 and 2010 show a building with no change in height.[6][7]
references
  1. 1 2 3 "COUNTRY TELEGRAMS". The South Australian Advertiser. XXV, (7552). South Australia. 2 January 1883. p. 5. Retrieved 14 May 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. 1 2 "MARINE BOARD OPERATIONS". South Australian Weekly Chronicle. XXIV, (1, 231). South Australia. 25 March 1882. p. 22. Retrieved 14 May 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. 1 2 "MOUNT GAMBIER AND DISTRICT". The South Eastern Times. , (2209). South Australia. 1 June 1928. p. 2. Retrieved 14 May 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Cape Banks Lighthouse, Cape Banks Rd, Carpenter Rocks, SA, Australia". Australian Heritage Database. Department of Environment and Energy, the Australian Government. 21 October 1980. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Cape Banks". Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  6. ↑ "Cape Banks Lighthouse (B 2015) - Photograph (please refer 'Info' tab)". Cape Banks Collection. State Library of South Australia. 23 March 2005. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
  7. ↑ Fairv8 (19 April 2010). "Cape Banks lighthouse". Wikimedia. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
  8. 1 2 3 Boating Industry Association of South Australia (BIA); South Australia. Department for Environment and Heritage (2005), South Australia's waters an atlas & guide, Boating Industry Association of South Australia, p. 178, ISBN 978-1-86254-680-6
  9. 1 2 "Cape Banks Lighthouse". South Australian Heritage Register. Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  10. ↑ "REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE MARINE BOARD FOR 1879". South Australian Register. XLV, (10, 426). South Australia. 14 April 1880. p. 1 (SUPPLEMENT TO THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN REGISTER). Retrieved 14 May 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  11. ↑ "TURKISH INTERVENTION IN EGYPT". South Australian Register. XLVII, (11, 142). South Australia. 31 July 1882. p. 4. Retrieved 14 May 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  12. ↑ "Advertising". The Register (Adelaide). XCIII, (27, 148). South Australia. 18 August 1928. p. 20. Retrieved 14 May 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  13. ↑ "Cape Banks Lighthouse, Cape Banks Rd, Carpenter Rocks, SA, Australia (Place ID 8265)". Australian Heritage Database. Department of the Environment. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
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