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Eastern Channel Pile Light
Western Channel Pile Light
Detail of chart showing Sow and Pigs Reef and lightship 1881
Fort Phillip and the Signal Staff 1842
Georges Head Light, precast top being placed on pile foundation 27 March 1924
Letter to the editor of the Sydney Times on the loss of the Edward Lombe 1834
No.2 Port Jackson N.S.W. The Floating Light - (Morning), 1846
Observatory and the signalling station, Observatory Hill, Sydney 1870-75
Sow & Pigs Reef at low tide May 1950
Women's Emergency Signalling Corps members at Castle Hill c1939

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Signalling

Eastern Channel Pile Light

An active pile lighthouse off South Head in Sydney Harbour. A white timber and concrete octagonal structure, with an iron and glass light and copper dome, it was constructed in 1908 to replace an earlier buoy and beacon. It was originally powered by an acetylene gas generating plant.

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Western Channel Pile Light

An active pile lighthouse off Georges Head in Sydney Harbour marking the western end of Sow and Pigs Reef. A white timber and concrete structure with a copper dome, it was designed to match the existing Eastern Channel Pile Light. It was constructed in 1924 to replace an earlier, smaller beacon that had in turn replaced a lightship in 1912.

 

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Detail of chart showing Sow and Pigs Reef and lightship 1881

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From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[Z/M2 811.15/1881/1 (detail)]
(Detail of 'Mossmans Ferry: showing course taken by steamer and various roads to Pearl Bay, Spit and Balmoral, Middle Harbour ; Georges and Bradleys Head ; Curraghbeenia Point & c')

Fort Phillip and the Signal Staff 1842

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By
Edmund Thomas Blacket
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a881015 / PXE 925 Box 1, 14]
(Mitchell Library)

Georges Head Light, precast top being placed on pile foundation 27 March 1924

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From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[Government Printing Office 1 - 20687]

Letter to the editor of the Sydney Times on the loss of the Edward Lombe 1834

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Contributed By
National Library of Australia
[Sydney Times, 29 August 1834, p2 via Trove]

No.2 Port Jackson N.S.W. The Floating Light - (Morning), 1846

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By
George Edwards Peacock
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[DG 334]
(Dixson Galleries)

Observatory and the signalling station, Observatory Hill, Sydney 1870-75

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By
American & Australasian Photographic Company
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[ON 4 Box 60 No 336]
(Mitchell Library)

Sow & Pigs Reef at low tide May 1950

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From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[Government Printing Office 1 - 07928]
(Mitchell Library)

Women's Emergency Signalling Corps members at Castle Hill c1939

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Reproduced courtesy of the
Ex-Wrans Association NSW

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