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Date: 1905 Client: SAR&H Type: Lighthouse Style: Industrial Archaeology Status: Extant   Click to view large map Coordinates: 30°14'59.41" S 30°46'51.50" E Alt: 17m

Declared a National Monument (now Provincial Heritage Resource) on 1995 09 25. The prefabricated cast-iron lighthouse at Mahlongwa was dismantled and re-erected at this location to protect shipping from the Aliwal Shoal. It was equipped with a 700mm focal distance, group-flashing optic. The lens platform was floated on a bed of mercury and the original light source was a petroleum vapour burner, the second last such to use this light source and the first to be fully automated in 1961 when the light was converted to electric operation. References: Hoberman, Gerald. 2011. Lighthouses of South Africa : pocket edition. Cape Town - London - New York: The Gerald & Marc Hoberman Collection. pg 132, 133 (ill.) Williams, Harold. 1993. Southern Lights : Lighthouses of Southern Africa. Cape Town: William Waterman Publications. pg 93-94