Tiparra Light |
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| Title : | Tiparra Light |
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| Source : | PRG 280/1/38/385, Searcy Collection | ||
| Date of creation : | ca. 1905 | ||
| Format : | Photograph | ||
| Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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| Description : |
Lighthouse at Tiparra (more usually spelt Tipara) in the Spencer Gulf off Moonta Bay, South Australia. The screw pile lighthouse over the Tipara Reef in Moonta Bay was the first lighthouse in Spencer Gulf and was operational from August 1877. The pyramidal skeletal tower is very like the Cape Jaffa Lighthouse on Margaret Brock Reef in the state's south-east. Prior to this a lightship, the schooner Alexander, was stationed over the reef from February 1865. However following a number of wrecks and near misses it was decided a lighthouse should be built there. Tipara Reef Lighthouse used a Chance Brothers first order apparatus for its light. The light's platform was well frequented by birds and a major task of visiting service crews was the removal of nests. Tipara Reef Lighthouse was replaced by a light tower at Warburto Point on the adjacent mainland in 1995. The tower of the old Tipara Reef light now stands in Wallaroo at the Maritime Museum. There is a small beacon on the remnants of the platform. |
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| Coverage year : | 1905 |
| Period : | 1884-1913 |
| Place : | Moonta Bay |
| Region : | Yorke Peninsula |
| Further reading : | Parsons, Ronald. Lighthouses of South Australia Magill, S. Aust.: R. Parsons, c1985 Reid, Gordon. From dusk till dawn: a history of Australian lighthouses South Melbourne: Macmillan in association with the Dept. of Transport and Communications, 1988 |
| Internet links : | Lighthouses of Australia Inc. - Lighthouses of South Australia: Click on map for location of Tipara Lighthouse South Australia lighthouses: scroll down to Tipara Reef (platform) and Tipara Reef (light tower 2) SA Memory Wooden walls and iron sides - South Australia's maritime history |
| Exhibitions and events : | State Library of South Australia: Mortlock Wing exhibitions. Wooden Walls and Iron Sides August 2004- |
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