heritage asset · lens

Mersey Bluff Lighthouse

Original Chance Bros. 4th-order lens (1889) still in place at Mersey Bluff Lighthouse, Tasmania, though a 2nd-order lens has driven the light since a 1952 hydro-electric conversion.

At a glance

Manufacture date: 1888
Lens order: 2nd order
Lens type: Revolving

Source Evidence

Mersey Bluff Lighthouse
Fibery external reference: lighthouses.org.au
Fibery external reference: www.ibiblio.org
Fibery external reference: www.justimagine.com.au

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Attribution

"Mersey Bluff Lighthouse" · LUX-ASSET-000025 · © LUX143 · Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International · https://light.lux143.org/heritage-assets/LUX-ASSET-000025/

Citation

LUX Light Archive, Heritage asset: "Mersey Bluff Lighthouse", LUX-ASSET-000025, https://light.lux143.org/heritage-assets/LUX-ASSET-000025/, accessed 2026-08-10, archive v0.24.362.