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Norah Head Lighthouse
Australia. New South Wales
Lit in 1903, the last staffed lighthouse built in New South Wales. It retains its original Chance Brothers Fresnel lens and the original Chance Brothers cast-iron and copper lantern house, with a modern lamp now inside the historic lens. The NSW State Heritage Register describes the original 1903 apparatus as a first-order dioptric revolving system by Chance Brothers.
| Lighthouse Construction | 1903 |
|---|---|
| Country | Australia. New South Wales |
| Lens Order | First order |
| Lens Type | Fresnel (bivalve dioptric) |
| Status | publish |
| Coordinates | -33.2817,151.5783 |
| Data Source | Added via LUX Light Archive (Vasily Korablev, lux143.org). Source(s): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norah_Head_Light Lens order confirmed first-order per the NSW State Heritage Register (LUX Light Archive review, 2026). |
Some information on this page was contributed by the LUX Light Archive (Vasily Korablev), reused with permission.
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