Cape Leveque

Cape Leveque

Cape Leveque lighthouse
Location	The northern edge of the Dampier Peninsula
Coordinates	16.3949°S 122.9283°E / -16.3949; 122.9283
Year first constructed	1912
Year first lit	1912
Construction	Steel (?)
Tower shape	Conical
Markings / pattern	White
Height	13 m
Focal height	43 m
Characteristic	Fl. (3) 20 s
Admiralty number	K1650
NGA number	9452
ARLHS number	AUS-036

Cape Leveque (western side)

Cape Leveque is the northernmost tip of the Dampier Peninsula in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Cape Leveque is 240 km (via the Cape Leveque Road) north of Broome, and is remote with few facilities. Nevertheless, the Cape's sandy beaches are attracting an increasing number of visitors.

A 13-metre-tall lighthouse was erected at Cape Leveque in 1912. Its light characteristic is a group of three flashes that occurs every twenty seconds whereby the light source emits from a focal plane of 43 m. The lighthouse marks the western entrance of King Sound.

Cape Leveque was a camping ground for ancient nomadic people of Northern Australia and probably is still being used today. Their huge middens over shadow the small caravan park resting on the shores of the Indian Ocean. Wild turtle and a multitude of sea birds nest on the shores and collect sea food off the the exposed rocks at low tide along the shore down the coast to Broome in the Souther part of the peninsular. Whales come to give birth in the area and rest and play among the sheltered islands off the Dampier Peninsular.

This pristine environment is now threatened by the government allowing an oil company to build a huge gas processing plant in the same area, bringing fear for the wild life and sea creatures still not yet identified and named.

External links

• Meteorological information
• Lighthouse keeper story