Crowdy Head Light, Lighthouse on Crowdy Head, New South Wales, Australia

Crowdy Head Light is a round stone-brick tower on a headland between Forster and Port Macquarie, built 1878–80 to a James Barnet design. Its walls taper from 480 mm at the base to 360 mm at the top, and an oversailing bluestone platform on shaped corbels carries a metal domed lantern. A short roofed porch links the tower to a rectangular annexe that once held the keeper's duty room and fuel store; all external walls are cement-rendered and painted white.

Crowdy Head Light was the last of five lighthouses built to James Barnet's design between 1878 and 1880, alongside Fingal Head, Clarence River (since demolished), Tacking Point and Richmond River lights. Its first light was a fixed white 4th-order catadioptric apparatus under 1,000 cd, tended by one keeper. In 1928 it was switched to acetylene carbide at 1,500 cd and automated; mains electricity followed in 1972.

The light was originally a fixed white 4th-order catadioptric apparatus of under 1,000 cd, tended by a single keeper; in 1928 it became an automated acetylene carbide lamp of 1,500 cd. The 4th-order Fresnel lens was sold on eBay in 2002 for $20,000 and now stands at Sea Girt Light in New Jersey. In 2021 an LED beacon with a 16-nautical-mile range replaced the VRB-25.

The lighthouse grounds are open to visitors, but the tower itself is closed and cannot be entered. The site stands on the Crowdy Head headland between Forster and Port Macquarie, and the light is still operated by Transport for NSW while the land is managed by the New South Wales Department of Lands.

The 4th-order Fresnel lens was sold on eBay in 2002 for $20,000 and is now displayed at Sea Girt Light in New Jersey. The tower's bluestone platform rests on shaped bluestone corbels, and its walls taper from 19 inches (480 mm) at the base to 14 inches (360 mm) at the top.