page_title: Lady Elliot Island Light
section_title: The lighthouse
hierarchical_section_title: Lady Elliot Island Light / Structures / The lighthouse
caption_attribution_description: Interior of the Lady Elliot Island lighthouse tower built in 1873. The view is from the first level above the ground. The winding timber stairs are supported by the timber weight tube in the centre. Note the timber tower frame members, attached to the concrete base by a cast iron ring, just visible at the bottom of the stairs. Also note the external cladding of curved wrought iron plates fastened together with rivets and attached to the timber frame with screws.
context_page_description: Lady Elliot Island Light is an active lighthouse located on Lady Elliot Island, the southern-most coral cay of the Great Barrier Reef, 46 nautical miles north-east of Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia. The lighthouse is located on the western side of the island. It was the third lighthouse erected in Queensland after its formation in 1859 and the first in Australia to be constructed of a timber frame clad with iron plates. The original lighthouse was deactivated in 1995 and the light was replaced by a modern skeletal tower standing close to the original lighthouse.
context_section_description: The lighthouse is largely in its original form. It is round in form and conical in shape. The base of the tower is a massive concrete floor cast within a low stone wall, with a segmented cast iron ring bolted to it. The tower is made of a timber frame clad with galvanised wrought iron plates, about 2.5 millimetres (0.098 in) thick. The plates are riveted at the joints and screwed to the timber frame and the base ring. The tower is painted white. It is topped by a gallery and a lantern, both painted white, with the lantern dome painted red. One addition to the original plan was the addition of a skillion roofed entrance porch to the base of the tower.
  The inside of the lighthouse is divided into four storeys with timber floors. A central weight tube provides support to a winding timber stair that goes up to the third level. Access to the fourth level, the gallery and the lantern is via a fixed ladder.
caption: view of the stair from the first floor
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