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Green Point Lighthouse, KwaZulu-Natal

Coordinates: 30°14′56.8″S 30°46′38.1″E / 30.249111°S 30.777250°E / -30.249111; 30.777250
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Green Point Lighthouse (KwaZulu-Natal)
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LocationUmzinto
KwaZulu-Natal
South Africa
Coordinates30°14′56.8″S 30°46′38.1″E / 30.249111°S 30.777250°E / -30.249111; 30.777250
Tower
Constructed1905
Constructioncast iron tower
Height21 metres (69 ft)
Shapetapered cylindrical tower with double balcony and lantern
Markingstower with red and white bands, white lantern
Power sourcemains electricity Edit this on Wikidata
Light
Focal height85 metres (279 ft)
Light sourcemains power

The Green Point Lighthouse is a provincial heritage site in Umzinto in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.

In 1995 it was described in the Government Gazette as an "unusual cast-iron structure, erected in 1905, [...] the oldest lighthouse on the KwaZulu-Natal coast."[1]

Senior lightkeepers

from until years name
1905 ~1918 ~13 C G Johnson
1918-10 E D Bayes
1921-03-31 J R Clingen
1926-03-31 1929-03-31 3 D Hurley
1930-03-31 1939-07-05 9 C H Cornish
1941-03-31 1948-09-20 7 T McInerney
1948-09-15 1952-10-26 4 E L Andreason
1953 1956 ~3 J C Addison
1956-01-06 1956-12-05 0 H H Hews
1957-01-12 1960-01-18 3 W A Hews
1960-01-18 1963-02 3 F C Miller
1961-11-28 converted to automatic operation

[2]

See also


References

  • Williams, Harold A. (1993). Southern lights: lighthouses of Southern Africa. Rivonia: William Waterman publications. ISBN 0-9583751-1-9.
  1. ^ Green Point Lighthouse Farm, South African Heritage Resource Agency
  2. ^ Williams (1993), p.159.

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