Cape Bowling Green Light, Lighthouse at Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia

Cape Bowling Green Light is a round conical tower with a hardwood frame clad in galvanized iron plates, prefabricated in Brisbane and erected in 1874. It now stands reassembled at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Darling Harbour, Sydney, where its original third-order lens and 1913 clockwork mechanism remain in working order.

The first Cape Bowling Green Light was built in 1874, one of 22 similar Queensland lighthouses, by brothers John and Jacob Rooney of Maryborough. It was prefabricated in Brisbane, shipped to the cape, and moved twice due to erosion, in 1878 and 1908. In 1913 a gas mantle raised its power to 64,000 cd; in 1920 an automatic acetylene lamp led to the station being demanned. Replaced in 1987, it was reassembled at the Australian National Maritime Museum by 1994.

The original 1874 tower now stands at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Darling Harbour, Sydney, where it is open for guided tours daily. Its lantern still works with the original third-order Chance Brothers lens and a 1913 clockwork mechanism, flashing four white flashes every twenty seconds.

The original 1874 tower is owned and operated by the Australian National Maritime Museum at Darling Harbour and is open for guided tours daily. The active lighthouse on Cape Bowling Green, near Ayr in Queensland, is a separate steel skeletal tower run by AMSA, and its visiting status is unclear.

The original 1874 tower was dismantled in 1987 and its numbered sections were flown by helicopter to Sydney, where it was reassembled by 1994 at the Australian National Maritime Museum. It still operates with its original 3rd order Chance Brothers lens and a 1913 clockwork mechanism, showing four white flashes every twenty seconds.