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Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse
Leeuwin Rd, Augusta WA 6290, Australia
☎ +61 8 9757 7411

Last Updated: 06/24/2024

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On the most Southern Westerly tip of Australia, where the Indian and Southern Oceans meet, stands Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse as a solitary sentinel. It was totally manually operated until 1982 by a clockwork mechanism and kero burner, one of the last in the world.
The original light source was a six wick kerosene lamp producing a light intensity of 250,000 candelas, visible for 40km. In 1925, the light was upgraded to vapourised kerosene giving a light intensity of 780,000 candelas.

The light was manually operated using vaporised keroscene until 1982 when it was converted to electricity replacing the clockwork mechanism and kero burner. The new 1,000 watt halogen lamp increased the light output to 1,000,000 candelas. This light was automated in September 1992.
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