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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. AMSA, established under the Australian Maritime Safety Authority Act 1990 (Cth), is now responsible for operating Commonwealth lighthouses and other marine aids to navigation, along with its other functions.
Figure 10. Dalén's system – sunvalve, mixer and flasher (Source: AMSA)

3.3 Western Australian lighthouse administration
The table below details the authorities of WA lighthouse management from 1915 to present.
Time Period   Administration
1915 – 1921   Lighthouse Branch, No 1. District (Western Australia and Northern Territory), Fremantle.
1921 – 1927   District Lighthouse Officer and Deputy Director of Navigation, Western Australia.
1927 – 1963   Deputy Director of Lighthouses and Navigation, Western Australia.
1963 – 1972   Department of Shipping and Transport, Regional Controller, Western Australia.
1972 – 1977   Department of Transport [III], Western Australia.
1977 – 1982   Department of Transport [III], Western Australia Region.
1982 – 1983   Department of Transport and Construction, Regional Office, Western Australia.
1983 – 1987   Department of Transport [IV], Western Australian Region.
1987 – 1990   Department of Transport and Communications, Regional Office Western Australia.
1991 –        Australian Maritime Safety Authority

3.4 Cape Leeuwin: a history
Aboriginal history
The Wardandi, one of the fourteen Noongar tribes, have significant links to the cape which is known as Doogalup. The cape has heritage significance.
Further consultation is required and this section will be updated in future versions of the plan.
Early European history
Cape Leeuwin was named by Matthew Flinders, English navigator and cartographer, on 7 December 1801 for its proximity to the region named Leeuwin's Land by Dutch navigators in 1622[viii].
The state of Western Australia was proclaimed on 18 June 1829, shortly followed by groups of settlers to the southwest coast. In the following decades, land was divided and large pastoral leases taken up as the timber industry flourished. In 1830, London surveyor, James Woodward Turner, arrived on the Emily Taylor with the first group of settlers to the area. He was granted 3,000 acres of land. Among these parcels of land was a section of Cape Leeuwin (Doogalup) which would later become the site of the lighthouse.
During the 1880s, Turner sold the Cape Leeuwin property to MC Davis before it was passed to Millars' Karri & Jarrah Company in 1902. The Commonwealth eventually acquired the lighthouse site in 1915[ix].

3.5 Planning a lighthouse
Why Cape Leeuwin?
In the 1850s, the state of Western Australia set out to establish a lighthouse in its south-western corner. A number of potential dangers had been identified surrounding the Cape and were addressed in initial discussions on the construction