Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2023L00060:reg:2015:p8
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2023L00060
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 2015 (pt 8/17)
Character Range: 61785–65024

Island Lighthouse
The following information is taken directly from Goose Island Lighthouse's listings on the Tasmanian State heritage register (THR ID: 10684).
TAS State Register – statement of significance
    Goose Island is of historic cultural heritage significance as an important site in the nineteenth century development of maritime navigational aids through Bass Strait and along the Tasmanian coast. With a growing population, the expansion of ports such as Melbourne, Hobart and Launceston and emerging international trade patterns, the colony required safe and efficient waterways.
    Similar to other early lightstations, Goose Island was constructed using convict labour. Goose Island also demonstrates the evolution of light-keeping technology, the station being one of the first to use catadioptric technology in the Australian colonies. Goose Island Lighthouse is one of five pre-1850 lighthouses still in use in the state, and is the third oldest lighthouse in the country still in operation.
    It has significant archaeological potential being occupied for almost a century and because of its remote location, has undergone relatively little development. The site has the potential to yield information to better understand the development of navigational aids and domestic life in an isolated environment.
    Goose Island Lighthouse is a fine example of a nineteenth century lightstation, forming part of a wider network of stations around the coastline of Tasmania.
TAS State Register – criteria
The Heritage Council may enter a place in the Heritage Register if it meets one or more of the following criteria from the Historic Cultural Heritage Act (1995).
Criterion                                                                                                                   Explanation and evidence
  a)      The place is important to the course or pattern of Tasmania's history.                                            The lighthouse and related structures are important for their association with the early nineteenth century development of these aids most of which were constructed by convict labour. Goose Island Lighthouse was constructed at a time when shipping between Melbourne, Hobart and Launceston was increasing, and it contributed significantly to the Bass Strait network of lighthouses, including that of Deal Island. Goose Island Lighthouse is also of historic heritage significance as one of the earliest uses of the catadioptric technology in Australia.

  b)      The place possesses uncommon or rare aspects of Tasmania's history.                                               The Goose Island Lightstation is of historic heritage significance as one of five extant pre-1850 lighthouses in Tasmania. It is the third oldest lighthouse in Australia still in existence and is still operating.

  c)      The place has the potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of Tasmania's history.  The buildings, outbuilding, surface and subsurface deposits, of the Goose Island Lighthouse and associated features, which are below or adjacent to the structures are artefacts in the archaeological sense of being the tangible products of human behaviour. As such, they