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Position. About 200 feet from the Western extreme of the Cape.
Latitude, 11° 18' S.; Longitude, 131° 46' É.
Structure.-Grey Concrete Tower, lantern painted White. Height 118 feet. The
tower shows about 58 feet above the trees on the Cape.
Character:White Single Flashing, showing one flash every five seconds thus:----
Flash
sec.
Eclipse
43 secs.
Elevation.-163 feet; not 166 feet as formerly stated.
Visibility.-19 miles from 320° (N. 433° W. Mag.) through North, East, and South
to 212° (S. 281 W. Mag.). Obscured elsewhere.
Power.-150,000 candles.
Charts affected.-Admiralty Chart No. 613 --Melville Island with Dundas and
Clarence Straits.
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1044 -Groote Eylandt to Cape Ford.
2759A-Australia, Northern Portion.
942B-Eastern Archipelago, Eastern Portion
--Part 2.
Publications affected.-Australia Pilot, Vol. V., 1914, page 91.
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Admiralty List of Lights and Time Signals, Part VI., 1917.
By Direction,
STEPHEN MILLS,
Comptroller-General of Customs.
JOSHUA F. RAMSBOTHAM,
Director of Lighthouses.
Department of Trade and Customs,
MELBOURNE, 23rd October, 1917.
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA.
1917. No. 24.
The Astronomical positions are only approximate unless seconds are given. The bearings are given both True and Magnetic, and those relating to lights are from seaward. The visibility of lights is that in clear weather. Fog signals are sounded only in thick or foggy weather. The elevation given is the height of focal plane above high water.
AUSTRALIA-EAST COAST.
Inner Barrier Route.
Chapman Island.—Intended New Light.-Beacon to be discontinued.
MARINERS and others are hereby notified that--
(1) the new Single Flashing White Light will be exhibited experimentally, on
or about 1st December, 1917.
(2) the Square Black Beacon will be discontinued on or about 1st December,
1917.
Position.--On the North-West end of the reef, about 1 cables Northward of the
existing beacon. Lat. 12° 53′ S.; Long. 143° 35'' E.
Structure.-Steel Skeleton Tower, painted Red and White, on concrete piers.
Height, 61 feet.