Smoky Cape Lighthouse, Maritime lighthouse in South West Rocks, Australia

Smoky Cape Lighthouse is an octagonal mass-concrete tower on a granite headland in Hat Head National Park, its light standing 111 metres above the sea. It has a single-storey pavilion entrance, a cast-iron staircase and a gunmetal balustrade, and keeps its original Chance Brothers lantern house and first-order Fresnel lens. The tower is one of only three nineteenth-century mass-concrete lighthouses in New South Wales.

James Barnet, the Colonial Architect of New South Wales, designed the lighthouse, and it was completed in 1891 as one of his last major works along the coast. It was built to warn ships away from a section of coastline where a number of vessels had already come to grief.

The name comes from Captain Cook's log entry of 13 May 1770, which records fires producing "a great quantity of smoke" on the point he then named Smoky Cape. The lighthouse has been a Bureau of Meteorology climate station since 1939, and its grounds were first opened for tours on 14 May 1998.

The lighthouse is reached through Hat Head National Park, where a daily vehicle entry fee applies. The headland is open and exposed to wind, so bring a layer and wear shoes with a good grip on uneven ground.

The tower is one of only three 19th-century mass concrete lighthouses in New South Wales, alongside South Solitary Island and Green Cape. It still uses its original first-order Fresnel lens and Chance Brothers revolving apparatus, installed when the light was first exhibited in 1891.