heritage asset · lens
Booby Island Lighthouse
Chance 2nd-order revolving lens (made 1886) at Booby Island, Torres Strait, Queensland; original lens and mercury bearing pedestal removed 1991, now displayed at Green Hill Fort museum, Thursday Island.
At a glance
- Manufacture date
- 1886
- Lens order
- 2nd order
- Lens type
- Revolving
Source Evidence
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Attribution
"Booby Island Lighthouse" · LUX-ASSET-000043 · © LUX143 · Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International · https://light.lux143.org/heritage-assets/LUX-ASSET-000043/
Citation
LUX Light Archive, Heritage asset: "Booby Island Lighthouse", LUX-ASSET-000043, https://light.lux143.org/heritage-assets/LUX-ASSET-000043/, accessed 2026-08-10, archive v0.24.362.