Point Perpendicular Light

The two point-perpendicular lighthouses

Point Perpendicular Light is a lighthouse on the southern tip of the Beecroft Peninsula , at the northern entrance to Jervis Bay in Australia .

building

The Lighthouse Point Perpendicular Light 210 kilometers from Sydney and 43 kilometers from Nowra removed. Its access is blocked 110 days a year because the Australian Navy takes place on target practice sessions. It is a 21.4 meter tall historic lighthouse that was in operation from 1899 to 1993. In 1964 it was electrified. The tower had a 120-volt power supply generated by diesel generators and 1000-watt quartz halogen lamps. Its light reached 42 kilometers and the luminosity was 1,200,000 Cd .

The light of the old Point Perpendicular Light was extinguished by the last lighthouse keeper, John Hampson, on November 17, 1999, on the centenary of its commissioning.

Since 1993, next to the old Point Perpendicular Light, there has been a 19.3 meter high steel tower, which was built in a skeleton construction and is solar powered .

Monument protection

The lighthouse and other buildings at Point Perpendicular and Cape St George Lighthouse across the bay are listed on the Australian Register of the National Trust as Listed Properties.

Exclave

The Australian Capital Territory received the Jervis Bay Territory according to the Jervis Bay Territory Acceptance Act 1915 , as it should have its own access to the sea according to the Seat of Government Acceptance Act 1909 . Within the exclave of Jervis Bay Territory , the lighthouse and an area of around 200 by 200 meters are now an exclave of the state of New South Wales .