List of lighthouses in South Africa explained

This is a list of lighthouses in South Africa. It contains currently active lights as well as decommissioned lights of historical importance.

Lighthouses

Lighthouse	Location	Coordinates	Year built	Structure	Focal height	ALN	Notes
Bird Island	Bird Island^[1]	-33.8416°N 26.2871°W	1852-12-01, 1873-05-01	26 m masonry tower	30 m	D6412^[2]	The Doddington sank at the island in 1755.
Bluff	Durban, KZN	-29.8778°N 31.0639°W	1867-01-12	concrete tower			discontinued 1940-10-16, later demolished, coordinates are for the original iron tower^[3] ^[4] ^[5]
Cape Agulhas	Cape Agulhas, WC	-34.8189°N 20.0092°W	1849-03-01	27 m tower	31 m HW	D6370^[6]	National monument^[7] Provincial Heritage Site^[8]
Cape Columbine	Paternoster, WC	-32.8108°N 17.8564°W	1936-10-01	15 m masonry tower	80 m HW	D5810^[9]	^[10]
Cape Hangklip		-34.3865°N 18.8284°W	1960-11-25	22 m concrete tower	34 m HW	D6280^[11]
Cape Hermes	Port St. Johns	-31.635°N 29.5564°W	1903-05-01, 1904-10-16	13 m stone tower	55 m	D6442^[12]	^[13]
Cape Infanta		-34.4719°N 20.8464°W	1979-03-15	15 m aluminium lattice tower	53 m MSL	D6371	^[14]
Cape Morgan	Morgan's Bay	-32.7072°N 28.3653°W	1964-02-05	12 m aluminium tower	60 m	D6434	^[15]
Cape Point	Cape Point, WC	-34.3567°N 18.5°W	1860-05-01, 1919-03-11	9 m masonry tower	87 m HW	D6120^[16]	^[17]
Cape Recife	Algoa Bay, EC	-34.0289°N 25.7011°W	1851-04-01	24 m masonry tower	28 m	D6390	^[18]
Cape Seal	Plettenberg Bay	-34.1077°N 23.4063°W	1950-05-11	6 m tower	146 m	D6384^[19]
Cape St. Blaize	Mossel Bay	-34.186°N 22.157°W	1864-03-15	20.5 masonry tower	73 m	D6378	^[20]
Cape St. Lucia		-28.515°N 32.4°W	1906-12-15, 1915	8 m cast iron tower	113 m	D6484	^[21]
Cape St. Martin	St Helena Bay, WC	-32.7147°N 17.9218°W	1977-12-12	10 m aluminium lattice tower	18 m	D5801
Cape Vidal	Cape Vidal Forestry Reserve, KZN	-28.1478°N 32.553°W	1985-07-08	23 m concrete tower	64.5 m MSL	D6485	painted yellow^[22]
Castle Point	East London, CC		1860-08-25	wood			decommissioned 1895^[23] ^[24]
Cooper Light	Brighton Beach, Durban, KZN	-29.9347°N 31.0042°W	1953-07-31	21 m concrete tower	134 m	D6458^[25]	^[26]
Danger Point		-34.6302°N 19.303°W	1895-01-01	masonry tower	45 m	D6320	^[27]
Dassen Island	Dassen Island, WC	-33.4317°N 18.0894°W	1893-04-15	28 m iron tower	47 m	D5860^[28]	^[29]
Deal Light	Papenkuils river mouth	-33.9156°N 25.6144°W	1973-11-01	22 m aluminium lattice tower	26.9 m	D6400
Doringbaai	Doringbaai	-31.8167°N 18.2333°W^[30]	1963-04-02	21 m aluminum lattice tower	36 m	D5734	^[31]
Durnford	Port Durnford Forestry Reserve	-28.9167°N 31.925°W	1916-03-01	12 m steel tower	49 m	D6482^[32]	^[33]
Great Fish	Port Alfred	-33.5194°N 27.1094°W	1898-07-01	9 m masonry tower	85 m	D6416
Green Point	Green Point, WC	-33.9011°N 18.4006°W	1824-04-12	16 m masonry tower	20 m HW	D5900	^[34] ^[35] National monument and Provincial Heritage site^[36]
Green Point	Umzinto, KZN	-30.2489°N 30.7775°W	1905	21 m cast iron tower	86 m	D6454	^[37] ^[38]
Groenriviermond		-30.8647°N 17.5803°W	1988-11-21	17.2 m concrete tower	27.3 m	D5720	^[39]
The Hill	Port Elizabeth, EC		1861-06-01				decommissioned 1973-10-31
Hondeklipbaai		-30.3085°N 17.2716°W	1936-02-15, 1956-02-15	8 m steel tower	29 m	D5704
Hood Point	East London, EC	-33.0405°N 27.8986°W	1895-06-04	19 m masonry tower	55 m	D6420	^[40]
Ifafa Beach		-30.463°N 30.6523°W	1980-02-04	23 m tower	35.1 m MSL	D6452	^[41]
Jesser Point	Sordwana Bay, KZN	-27.5448°N 32.5613°W	1986-04	concrete tower	61 m MSL	D6486
M'bashe Point		-32.2409°N 28.915°W	1926-12-03	14 m lattice steel tower	47 m	D6438	^[42]
Milnerton	Milnerton, WC	-33.8815°N 18.4885°W	1960-03-10	21 m concrete tower	28 m	D5910^[43]	^[44]
Mouille Point		-33.9°N 18.4219°W^[45]	1842-07-01, 1865				Discontinued in 1908, demolished on or after 1921.
North Head	Saldanha Bay, WC	-33.05°N 17.9117°W	1939-07-12, 1969-12-02	21 m aluminum tower	33 m	D5830	^[46]
Port Edward	Port Edward, KwaZulu-Natal	-31.0567°N 30.2258°W	1968-07-17	21 m alumunium lattice tower	38 m	D6448
Port Nolloth	Port Nolloth, NC	-29.2495°N 16.869°W	1909	11 m aluminium lattice tower	17 m	D5660	^[47]
Port Shepstone	Umzinkulu River mouth, KZN	-30.7417°N 30.4592°W	1895, ~1905	8 m cast iron tower	24 m	D6450	^[48]
Quoin Point		-34.7805°N 19.6403°W	1955-03-02, 1990-10	21 m steel tower	32 m	D6332	^[49]
Richards Bay	Richards Bay, KZN	-28.7751°N 32.1281°W	1979-05-22	11 m concrete tower	72 m MSL	D6483
Robben Island	Robben Island, WC	-33.8145°N 18.3748°W	1865-01-01	18 m masonry tower	47 m	D5870	^[50]
Roman Rock	Simon's Town, WC	-34.1817°N 18.4617°W	1845,^[51] 1861-09-16	cast iron tower	17 m HW	D6140^[52]	^[53]
Seal Point	Cape St. Francis, EC	-34.2124°N 24.8366°W	1878-07-04	27.75 m masonry tower	36 m	D6386	National monument^[54] Provincial Heritage site^[55] Construction started in 1875.^[56]
Slangkop	Kommetjie	-34.1485°N 18.32°W	1919-03-04	33 m iron tower	41 m HW	D6110	^[57]
South Head	Saldanha Bay, WC	-33.1054°N 17.955°W	1969-12-02	21 m aluminum tower	34 m	D5831
South Sand	EC	-31.3273°N 29.9614°W	1931-08-21	21 m steel tower	82 m	D6446	^[58]
Tugela		-29.2222°N 31.5044°W	1972-11-22	21 m aluminium lattice tower	36 m	D6481
uMhlanga Rocks	uMhlanga, KZN	-29.7282°N 31.0884°W	1954-11-25	21 m concrete tower	25 m	D6480
Ystervarkpunt		-34.3906°N 21.7181°W	1964-08-04	21 m aluminium tower	51 m	D6374

See also

• List of lighthouses in Namibia (to the north-west)
• List of lighthouses in Mozambique (to the north-east)
• List of lighthouses and lightvessels
• Transnet National Ports Authority
• List of shipwrecks in South Africa

References

• Book: Lighthouses of South Africa. 1991. Portnet. 0-620-16367-4. portnet1991.
• Book: List of Lights, Fog Signals, Radio Navigational Aids and Radio Services. South African Navy, Hydrographic Office. 2008. Section 1 - List of Lights and Radio Signals. 4 September 1991 . 9780958407175. sanavy2008.
• Book: Williams , Harold A. . Southern lights: lighthouses of Southern Africa. 1993. William Waterman publications. Rivonia. 0-9583751-1-9. williams1993.

External links

• Baillie-Cooper, Simon (2006-07-23) Lighthouses of South Africa
• Lighthouse Map and Light Characteristics: Lighthouses, South Africa

Notes and References

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4. Book: Ingram , Joseph Forsyth . The colony of Natal; an official illustrated handbook and railway guide . 1895 . J. Causton and sons . 82 .
5. Book: Natal Almanac, Directory and Yearly Register . 1897 . 531 . Pietermaritzburg .
6. [#sanavy2008|SA Navy (2008)]
7. [#portnet1991|Portnet (1991)]
8. Web site: Cape LAgulhas Lighthouse Bredasdorp District. South African Heritage Resources Agency. 7 December 2010.
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36. Web site: Green Point Lighthouse Cape Town . . 7 December 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304022511/http://196.35.231.29/sahra/HeritageSitesDetail.aspx?id=13045 . 4 March 2016 .
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45. Book: Lighthouses. Return to an Address of ... the House of Commons, dated 15 April 1850;- for, "Statement of what measures have been adopted respecting the erection, management and superintendence of lighthouses in the British colonies and possessions (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, no.225, of Session 1849)" "and, Abstract of any Returns received from the colonies upon the subject since April 1849.". 1850. H. Hansard. 8 December 2010.
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51. Book: Findlay, Alexander George. Alexander George Findlay

    . Alexander George Findlay. A Description and List of the Lighthouses of the World. 1879. 7 December 2010. London. 136.

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55. Web site: Seal Point Lighthouse Cape St Francis Humansdorp District. South African Heritage Resources Agency. 7 December 2010.
56. Book: Sellick, W.S.J.. Uitenhage, past and present : souvenir of the Centenary, 1804-1904. 1904. 125.
57. [#portnet1991|Portnet (1991)]
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