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awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for a series of inventions for acetylene-powered navigation lights. Dalén's system—including the sun valve, the mixer, the flasher, and the cylinder containing compressed acetylene—proved efficient and reliable.
Acetylene was quickly adopted by the fledgling Commonwealth Lighthouse Service from 1915, and remained in use until it was finally phased out in the 1990s[13].
Since then electric lighting—using mains power, diesel generators, and solar-voltaic systems— has become the universal source of energy for Australian navigation lights.

Figure 9. Dalén's system – sunvalve, mixer, flasher and cylinder (Source: AMSA)

  3.2  The Commonwealth lighthouse service
When the Australian colonies federated in 1901, it was decided that the new Commonwealth Government would be responsible for coastal lighthouses. This included only the major lights used by vessels travelling from port to port, not the minor lights used for navigation within harbours and rivers. There was a delay before this new arrangement came into effect and the existing lights continued to be operated by the states.
Since 1915, various Commonwealth departments have managed lighthouses. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA), established under the Australian Maritime Safety Authority Act 1990, is  now responsible for operating Commonwealth lighthouses and other marine aids to navigation, along with its other functions.
  3.3  Tasmanian lighthouse administration
The table below details the authorities of TAS lighthouse management from 1915 to present.
Time Period  Administration
1915 – 1927  Lighthouse District No 3. (Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania), Hobart Headquarters.
1927 – 1963  Deputy Director of Lighthouses and Navigation, Tasmania.
1963 – 1972  Department of Shipping and Transport, Regional Controller, Tasmania.
1972 – 1982  Department of Transport [III], Regional Controller, Tasmania.
1982 – 1983  Department of Transport and Construction. Victoria-Tasmania Region, Transport Division (Tasmania)
1983 – 1985  Department of Transport [IV] Victoria-Tasmania Region, Hobart Office.
1985 – 1987  Department of Transport [IV], Tasmanian Region.
1987 – 1990  Department of Transport and Communications, Tasmanian Region.
1991 –       Australian Maritime Safety Authority.

  3.4  Eddystone Point: a history
Indigenous history
The following information was provided by Graeme Gardner, Manager for the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania:
    larapuna was a significant place in the territory of the northeast people, particularly the Pinterrairer and Panpekanner bands, and visited by Ben Lomond people in autumn (Ryan 1982). The bulk of the headland is effectively one huge midden, which now has coastal scrub over much of it. It would have been a most important tribal gathering point for a vast period of time. It was given the name Eddystone Point by Tobias Furneaux in 1773.
    As he sailed north on March 17th he had already named the long bay to the south of larapuna the Bay of Fires, due to the smoke he could see from