Old Burnett Heads Light
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{{Infobox lighthouse
| name = Old Burnett Heads Light
| image = Old Burnett Heads Light closeup, 2010.jpg
| caption = Old Burnett Heads Light, 2010
| location = Burnett Heads
Queensland
Australia
| coordinates = {{coord|24|45|48.96|S|152|24|32.83|E|display=inline,title}}
| yearbuilt = 1873
| yearlit =
| automated = 1932
| yeardeactivated = 1971
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| construction = timber frame clad with weatherboards
| shape = tapered hexagonal tower with balcony and lanternRowlett says square though the plans clearly show a hexagonal form.
| marking = white tower, red lantern dome
| height = {{convert|30|ft}}
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| lens = fifth order Fresnel lens
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The Old Burnett Heads Light is an inactive lighthouse which used to be located on the south side of the Burnett River entrance, in Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia. It was relocated to the Burnett Heads Lighthouse Holiday Park. It is one of only two lighthouse surviving to be constructed of timber frame clad with weatherboards, the other being the original Cleveland Point Light.{{sfn|AHD8651}}
History
File:Old Burnett Heads Light, 2010.jpg
In the early 1870s Comboyuro Point Light and Cowan Cowan Point Light, two of the lighthouses on Moreton Island were upgraded. A higher tower with a better apparatus was constructed for Comboyuro Point and an improved apparatus was constructed for Cowan Cowan Point. The old apparatus from Comboyuro Point was installed at Cleveland Point Light. The apparatus from Cowan Cowan Point was installed at the old tower from Comboyuro Point, and the tower was installed at the entrance to Burnett River.{{harvnb|Davenport|1986|p=169}}. Note that {{harvnb|Bundaberg Regional Library}} says the tower itself was from Cowan Cowan Point. The date of this installation is given as either 1873{{sfn|Bundaberg Regional Library}}{{sfn|Rowlett}} or 1874.{{sfn|Davenport|1986|p=169}} Until 1932 it was occupied by a lighthouse keeper. In 1932 the light was converted to acetylene gas (carbide lamp), automated and demanned.{{sfn|Lighthouses of Australia Inc}}
The lighthouse operated until 1971 when it was replaced by the New Burnett Heads Light. It was then relocated about {{convert|1|km}} inland into Burnett River and restored. The concrete base and the steps of the lighthouse are still present next to the new tower.{{sfn|Lighthouses of Australia Inc}} The original fifth-order Fresnel lens is still mounted in the tower.{{sfn|Flotwell|2003}}
Site operation and visiting
File:Burnett Heads Light, conversion to automatic plans, 1920.jpg
The site and the lighthouse are managed by the Bundaberg Regional Council. The Burnett Heads Lighthouse Holiday Park is open, but the tower is closed to the public.{{sfn|Rowlett}}
See also
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Notes
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References
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- {{cite rowlett|qld|accessdate=14 November 2010}}
- {{cite loa|QLD|Burnett%20Heads|The Old Burnett Heads Lighthouse|url3=Burnett%20Heads%20Old}}
- {{cite journal|journal=Lighthouses of Australia Inc Bulletin|url=http://www.lighthouse.net.au/lights/Bulletin/0308/Bulletin%20Aug%2003.htm#Flotwell|number=4|date=August 2003|title=Annette Flotwell's East Coast Lighthouse Trip: Part 2|first=Annette|last=Flotwell|access-date=28 November 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101222040920/http://www.lighthouse.net.au/lights/Bulletin/0308/Bulletin%20Aug%2003.htm#Flotwell|archive-date=22 December 2010|url-status=dead}}
- {{cite AHD|8651|Cleveland Lighthouse, Shore St North, Cleveland, QLD, Australia}}
- {{cite web|url=http://bundaberg.qld.gov.au/library/Historic_Burnett_Heads_Lighthouse.pdf|format=PDF|title=Historic Burnett Heads Lighthouse|publisher=Bundaberg Regional Library|ref={{sfnRef|Bundaberg Regional Library}}|access-date=20 February 2011|archive-date=1 March 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110301145724/http://bundaberg.qld.gov.au/library/Historic_Burnett_Heads_Lighthouse.pdf|url-status=dead}}
- {{cite QHR|15547|Cleveland Lighthouse (former)|600772|accessdate=13 July 2015}}
- {{cite book|title=Harbours & Marine: Port and Harbour Development in Queensland from 1824 to 1985|last=Davenport|first=Winifred|year=1986|publisher=Department of Harbours & Marine|location=Brisbane}}
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Category:Lighthouses completed in 1873
Category:Lighthouses in Queensland
Category:1873 establishments in Australia
Category:History of transport in Queensland
Category:Disused lighthouses in Australia
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