Kiama Light, Navigation lighthouse at Blowhole Point, Kiama, Australia
Kiama Light is a white cylindrical brick tower 15.5 m tall, rising 36.3 m above the ocean on Blowhole Point beside the Kiama Blowhole. Its concrete slab foundation is 4.3 m deep and 3.7 m in diameter; inside, three iron ladders link the storeys, and a hexagonal white fence surrounds the base.
Edward Orpen Moriarty designed this structure in 1887, ten years after the construction of Robertson Basin established port facilities in the area. Together, these developments enabled maritime operations to grow along this section of coast.
The assistant keeper's cottage, a short distance from the tower, later housed harbour pilots and is now the Pilots' Cottage Museum and tourist information centre, run by the Kiama Historical Society. It opens on weekends. The tower itself stays closed to visitors.
The site is managed by Transport for NSW. The tower is closed to the public, but the museum in the former assistant keeper's cottage is open on weekends. The site is accessible by road with parking available. The tower is surrounded by a hexagonal fence.
The original 1887 apparatus was an oil burner with a catadioptric fixed lens giving a fixed green light of 600 cd, visible for 9 nautical miles. In 1908 it was converted to coal gas, raising intensity to 1,500 cd and range to 15 nautical miles.
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