Cape Schanck Lighthouse, Heritage lighthouse in Cape Schanck, Australia.

Cape Schanck Lighthouse is a white stone tower with a red lantern housing on a rocky headland at the southern tip of the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia. The tower stands on a clifftop above Bass Strait and is surrounded by the former keeper cottages that form the rest of the heritage site.

A coastal light at Cape Schanck was authorised in the 1850s as part of Victoria's second ocean lighthouse campaign, alongside Wilsons Promontory and Gabo Island, in response to repeated shipwrecks in Bass Strait. The 21-metre tower, built of locally quarried limestone in 1859, was the second coastal lighthouse in Victoria. After Federation it passed to the Australian Government and was returned to Victoria in 1995. It joined the Victorian Heritage Register on 12 November 1998.

The old keeper cottages on the grounds now serve as a museum where you can see navigation tools and logbooks from past centuries. Walking through these rooms gives a real sense of what daily life looked like for the families who lived and worked here.

Visitors can climb the tower to reach an observation level with open views over the coast and the strait below. The site sits at the end of a winding road, so it is worth checking the weather before you go, as strong winds can affect access to the clifftop.

The light flashes the Morse code letter "N": a 10.8-second signal followed by a flash. Its one-million-candela lantern and first-order Fresnel lens, fitted in 1915, give a range of 26 nautical miles, with white sectors to the south and west and red to the east.