Lihou Reef Lighthouse
Lihou Reef Lighthouse has a focal height of 33 metres, a tower height of 34 metres and a range of 19 nautical miles. It was built in 1999.
- Focal height
- 33 metres
- Tower height
- 34 metres
- Range
- 19 nautical miles
- Built
- 1999
- Coordinates
- -17.2, 152
The Lihou Reef Lighthouse is located in the Coral Sea Islands. It was built in 1999 and has a focal height of 33m, with a range of 19 nautical miles. The lighthouse is situated at coordinates -17.200000, 152.000000.
Light and tower
It has a two-stage tower: quadrangular skeletal tower with balcony lower part, quadrangular tower with balcony upper part tower. The tower is built of metal skeletal tower lower part, fiberglass tower upper part. Its daymark is white skeletal lower tower, red upper tower. The light has a focal height of 33 metres. The light has a range of 19 nautical miles. The NGA list of lights numbers it 9886.5. The Admiralty list of lights numbers it K3206.6.
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Details
- Marking
- white skeletal lower tower, red upper tower
- Range Nm
- 19
- Foundation
- four concrete piles
- Nga Number
- 9886.5
- Year Built
- 1999
- Description
- '''Lihou Reef National Nature Reserve''' was a marine protected area covering an area of 8440 km2 in the Australian Coral Sea Islands Territory that was incorporated into the new Coral Sea Commonwealth Marine Reserve in December 2012. Together with the Coringa-Herald National Nature Reserve, from which it is separated by about 100 km of open ocean, it forms the Coral Sea Reserves Ramsar Site, designated on 16 August 2002, listing it under the Ramsar Convention as a wetland of international importance.
- Tower Shape
- two-stage tower: quadrangular skeletal tower with balcony lower part, quadrangular tower with balcony upper part
- Focal Height M
- 33
- Tower Height M
- 34
- Admiralty Number
- K3206.6
- Construction Material
- metal skeletal tower lower part, fiberglass tower upper part