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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 aids to navigation, along with its other functions.
  3.3 Tasmanian lighthouse management administration
The table below details the authorities of Tasmanian lighthouse management from 1915 to present.
Time Period  Administration
1915-1927:   Lighthouse District No. 3 (Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania), Hobart Headquarters.

             Deputy Director of Lighthouses and Navigation, Tasmania.
1927-1963:
             Department of Shipping and Transport, Regional Controller, Tasmania.
1963-1972:
             Department of Transport [III], Regional Controller, Tasmania.
1972-1982:
             Department of Transport and Construction. Victoria-Tasmania Region, Transport Division (Tasmania)
1982-1983:
             Department of Transport [IV] Victoria-Tasmania Region, Hobart Office.

1983-1985    Department of Transport [IV] Tasmanian Region.

1985-1987:   Department of Transport and Communications, Tasmanian Region.

1987-1990:   Australian Marine Safety Authority.

1991-

  3.4 Table Cape: a history
Aboriginal history
There are two Aboriginal heritage sites (middens) that are recorded along the existing walking track, between the Lookout and Table Cape Lighthouse. The middens are recorded under the Tasmanian Aboriginal Site Index as AHR9172 and AHR9257.
It is understood that the nearby Freestone Cove was used as a site for stone tidal fish traps built by members of the clan.[9]

Further consultation with local Traditional stakeholders will be reflected within this section of future versions of the plan.

Early European history
In 1798, British navigator and cartographer Matthew Flinders, and British explorer George Bass, traversed Bass Strait aboard the sloop Norfolk. After sighting a noticeable, flat-topped promontory along the northern coastline of Van Diemen's Land, they named it Table Cape.
The area remained strictly inhabited by local Aboriginal communities until the mid-1850s.[10]

In 1852, The Courier reported:

    We perceive that about 1600 acres of land at Table Cape, Emu Bay, is offered to be let for the term of seven years at 5s. per acre; or to meet the convenience of all parties, the proprietor will let it in allotments from 10 acres and upwards for the term of five years, the first two years rent free. The proprietor to buy the grain at the Launceston market prices, allowing a deduction of 4d. per bushel for tonnage.[11]

By 1856, a thriving colony had established itself along the Cape and surrounding region.
The Courier documented statements made by Sir H. Fox Young, Governor-in-chief of the Island of Tasmania and dependencies, in response to the Reverend George Wilkinson, a key settler at Table Cape:

    I am rejoiced to find that the land upon which you have settled is of so productive a character, and it will afford me much pleasure to do all I can for the benefit of your neighbourhood….
    This very spot, Table