Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2021L01587:reg:1961:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2021L01587
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 1961 (pt 1/19)
Character Range: 46194–48990

1961        Lantern room handrail installed.
1960s       Top row of glazing replaced by fibro cement sheeting.
3 Oct 2013  New lens drive motor guard installed in pedestal.

Figure 13. 1st Order Chance Bros. Lantern currently at Eddystone Point, ex. Cape du Couedic Lighthouse (Source: AMSA)

Figure 14. Blueprint for alterations made to Incandescent lamp c.1921 (Source: AMSA)
  3.9  Summary of current and former uses
From its construction in 1889, Eddystone Point Lighthouse has been used as a marine AtoN for mariners at sea. Its AtoN capabilities remains its primary use.
Eddystone Point Lighthouse as a key tourism site developed over recent decades following the de- inhabitation of the keepers on-site. The keepers' cottages are now used as accommodation for the general public. Guided tours are carried out inside the lighthouse, and this touristic use remains secondary to its primary use as a working AtoN.
  3.10          Summary of past and present community associations
Indigenous associations – Northeast people
The following information was provided by Graeme Gardner, Manager for the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania:
    'My mother's country is Cape Portland; roamed from George's Bay and Falmouth to Low Head lighthouse, all the north-east,' said Henry Beeton, son of Watanimarina, in 1909 (Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre 2004). Watanimarina was the mother of Lucy, James, Henry and Jane Beeton and had been taken from Big Mussel Roe. In March 1773 the Englishman Furneaux saw so many fires burning along the shore behind the beach at larapuna that he named it Bay of Fires. The French expedition of Baudin 29 years later in 1802, also in March, recorded that they would have given it the same name for the same reason, and noted that the resources of the area seemed to support a denser population than elsewhere on the island (Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre Language & History Unit 2000).
    That the headland at the northern end of larapuna was important to the northeast people is attested to by the fact that it is effectively one large midden. It would have been an important gathering place for a very long time.
    The headland, now leased, has finally become an important gathering place again, long after Robinson in 1830 persuaded the last few northeast people who had survived the violent raids of the white sealers to leave their country with him. Larapuna has become somewhere for Aboriginal people from all over Tasmania to reconnect spiritually with country and each other. In February 2003 there was a festival held at larapuna as part of the Kickin' Up Dust program of four Aboriginal festivals around Australia. This resulted in an exhibition of photographs from all four festivals touring the country. The gathering at larapuna was seen as a chance for the