Archer Point Lighthouse
Fl WRG 20s🇦🇺Queensland's Far North, AUOperational
Location & Light Range
About Archer Point Lighthouse
Constructed in 1975, Archer Point Light is an active lighthouse situated on a grassy headland southeast of Cooktown in Queensland's Far North. The current structure features a concrete equipment room, topped by a lantern, with a focal height of 65 meters. Its light emits four flashes of white, red, or green every 20 seconds. This headland itself is conical and approximately 60 meters high. The lighthouse replaced an earlier timber-framed structure from 1883 that was clad in galvanized iron.
Why it matters: This lighthouse marks Archer Point, a significant headland southeast of Cooktown.
Background
Archer Point Light is an active lighthouse on Archer Point, a conical, 60-metre-high (200 ft) grassy headland about 29km southeast of Cooktown, Queensland, Australia. Originally an 1883 timber-framed lighthouse covered with galvanised iron, it was replaced in 1975 with a modern square concrete equipment room topped with a lantern.Light & Optic
Characteristic Signature
Fl WRG 20s
- Flash Type
- Flashing
- Light Color
- WRG
- Flash Count
- 1 flash
- Interval
- 20s
- Raw Code
- Fl.(4)W.R.G. period 20s
- Focal Height
- 65m
Location
- City
- Queensland's Far North
- Country
- 🇦🇺AU
- Latitude
- -15.5939°
- Longitude
- 145.3288°
Nearby Vessels
Construction & History
- Year Built
- 1975
References & Identifiers
- Admiralty No.
- K3200
- NGA No.
- K 3200
- Wikipedia
- Read on Wikipedia →
- Wikidata
- Q4785961 →
- OpenStreetMap
- View on OSM →
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