Double Island Point Light, Coastal lighthouse at Double Island Point, Queensland, Australia.
Double Island Point Light is an 8-metre conical tower built of an internal timber frame clad with galvanized iron plates about 2 mm thick, painted white with a red dome. It stands at the summit of Double Island Point in the Cooloola section of Great Sandy National Park, 70 km north of Noosa Heads. An original Chance Brothers lantern, 2.477 m in diameter, sits on a round reinforced concrete balcony.
A lighthouse was proposed for Double Island Point in 1864, but construction only began after Portmaster George Poynter Heath visited in 1883 and advised moving the tower to the summit with a more powerful third-order light. W. P. Clark built it for £6,900, and it was first exhibited on 11 September 1884 as the eighteenth lighthouse constructed by the Queensland Government. Three keeper cottages and a schoolhouse, active until 1922, stood nearby.
The station's name comes from the headland, which early navigators took for an island. A schoolhouse opened at the point alongside the light in 1884 and ran until 1922, serving keepers' families. The 1933 rebuild moved the two new cottages to the schoolhouse site on the ridge crest.
There is no public access to the lighthouse or its surrounding station, which sits at the summit of Double Island Point within Great Sandy National Park. The site is 70 km north of Noosa Heads at the southern end of Wide Bay. The structures are divided into two clusters: the tower with its watch hut, powerhouse and tank farm, and the keepers' cottages at a lower level.
The station switched from oil burners to solar power in the early 1990s, transitioning from staffed operation to fully automated control. This shift ended the era of keeper families living on-site and transformed the lighthouse into an unmanned facility.
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