Plumb Point Lighthouse, Maritime beacon in Saint Andrew, Jamaica

Plumb Point Lighthouse is a 21-metre conical tower of stone and cast iron with a gallery and lantern, its shaft painted white and its lantern dome grey. It stands on the Palisadoes tombolo about 8 km east of Port Royal, at the entrance to Kingston Harbour near Norman Manley International Airport.

This structure was built in 1853, shortly after Morant Point Lighthouse came into service, as Jamaica's maritime authorities worked to improve navigation safety. The two lighthouses represented a broader effort to modernize coastal shipping infrastructure for the growing ocean trade of that era.

The lighthouse stands within the Port Royal Protected Area, which the Jamaican government intends to develop as a tourist attraction. It is maintained by the Port Authority of Jamaica, an agency of the Ministry of Transport and Works, and is listed as a national heritage site by the Jamaica National Heritage Trust.

The lighthouse is a land-based structure visible from the nearby coastal road and does not require difficult terrain to view from nearby vantage points. Daytime or clear weather visits work best for photography and observing the building clearly from surrounding areas.

The claim that the light went out only once, during the 1907 earthquake, is a local tradition rather than a documented record; the French source instead states the tower did not suffer in that earthquake. The light's present character is a white-and-red flash every 9 seconds, with 1.5 seconds of light and 7.5 seconds of darkness, at a focal height of 21 m.