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By Colin Smith


Typically the Queensland Heritage Registered old Lighthouse on Cleveland Point is significant in that that it was associated with the earlier Western european settlement in Cleveland, it turned out one of the 1st lighthouses built-in the colony of Queensland and was a model for following wooden built lighthouses.

The Cleveland Lighthouse is really a hexagonal wood lighthouse roughly 12m (38ft) tall. It is made from painted weatherboards attached to a wood frame. It provides a gallery around the top made of coated iron alloy with glass windows. The top (turret) is capped using a coated iron alloy dome. The light utilised kerosene till 1934 in the event it ended up being changed into electric power.

The lighthouse was originally at the north east tip of Cleveland Point, three metres in the concrete light today within the Point. It had been relocated to it's existing site on March 1976 when the new concrete light had been built.

The Lighthouse was constructed approximately 1864. It lit the Point before it has been exchanged in 1975 by the concrete light.

In the 1860s, small farming settlements over the southern coast of Moreton Bay, such as at Cleveland, Victoria Point, Redland Bay and across the Logan and Albert Rivers depended on smaller ships (coastal steamers) for transport.

Travel by ship might be hazardous because the mudflats and also sandbanks on Moreton Bay shift and there are rocks. The bay is additionally really tidal, which meant it gets very shallow, particularly near shore.

Cleveland Point was a harmful place. Ahead of the lighthouse ended up being built, people located in Cleveland put up very small lights to guarantee the ships didn't run aground. Most of these small lights kept receiving destroyed, and finally the Queensland Government decided to develop a long term light.

The Cleveland Lighthouse is vital for two reasons.

The lighthouse will be the purely remaining timber-structured, timber-clad 19th century lighthouse in Moreton Bay. It has been an experimental design and one of only three hexagonal lighthouses constructed in Moreton Bay.

The Cleveland Lighthouse could be the only plainly obvious physical memory of Cleveland Point's role in early shipping in Moreton Bay. Many other structures had been built on Cleveland Point including jetties and buildings although the lighthouse will be the only building which is even now standing.




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