Tacking Point Lighthouse is Australia's thirteenth oldest lighthouse. It was built on a rocky headland about 8 kilometres south of Port Macquarie in 1879...
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the Tacking Point area before a lighthouse was designed by James Barnet and erected there in 1879 by Shepard and Mortley. Tacking Point Lighthouse is classified...
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Roads and Maritime Services (section Lighthouses)
following 13 lighthouses: Point Danger Lighthouse Fingal Head Light Ballina Head Light Evans Head Light Tacking Point Lighthouse Crowdy Head Light Point Stephens...
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(the original, now demolished), Tacking Point Lighthouse and Richmond River Light, designed by James Barnet in 1878 Point Perpendicular Light (1899), Cape...
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James Barnet (category Lighthouse builders)
five lighthouses, Richmond River Light, Clarence River Light, Tacking Point Lighthouse, Crowdy Head Light and Fingal Head Light, built in 1878–1880. Major...
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(NSW). Its nearest lighthouses are South Solitary Island Lighthouse north of Coffs Harbour, to the north, and Tacking Point Lighthouse at Port Macquarie...
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria, sometimes called the Pharos of Alexandria, was a lighthouse built by the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, during the...
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Post Office, Sydney main facade (c. 1900); constructed 1866–1892 Tacking Point Lighthouse, south of Port Macquarie; completed in 1879 Vernon was born in...
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Clarence River Light (category All articles using infobox lighthouse)
1878–80, the other four being Fingal Head Light, Crowdy Head Light, Tacking Point Lighthouse and Richmond River Light. It was built by W. Kinnear at a cost...
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Fingal Head Light (category All articles using infobox lighthouse)
Tacking Point Lighthouse and Crowdy Head Light. It originally had a porch and an annexe serving as oil room. A four-room, single-storey lighthouse keeper's...
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The Wollongong Head Lighthouse, also known as Flagstaff Hill Lighthouse or Flagstaff Point Light, is an active lighthouse located adjacent to the heritage-listed...
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Crowdy Head Light (category All articles using infobox lighthouse)
being Fingal Head Light, Clarence River Light (now demolished), Tacking Point Lighthouse and Richmond River Light. The original light was a fixed white...
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Wollongong Breakwater Lighthouse, also known as Wollongong Harbour Lighthouse, is a historic lighthouse situated on the southern breakwater of the heritage-listed...
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Richmond River Light (category All articles using infobox lighthouse)
being Fingal Head Light, Clarence River Light (now demolished), Tacking Point Lighthouse and Crowdy Head Light. A tender was called in 1878, it was built...
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Warden Head Light (redirect from Ulladulla Lighthouse)
Warden Head Light, also known as Ulladulla Lighthouse, is an active lighthouse on Warden Head, a headland south of Ulladulla, New South Wales, Australia...
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La Tour de Vinde (category All articles using infobox lighthouse)
portal List of lighthouses in the Channel Islands Feu de Noirmont Point Phares du Monde Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Jersey". The Lighthouse Directory....
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Kiama Light (category All articles using infobox lighthouse)
is an active lighthouse in Kiama, New South Wales, Australia. The lighthouse is located close to the Kiama Blowhole on Blowhole Point, south of Kiama...
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thought that the gig made two or three tacking movements to weather the La Givaude rocks and reached a point north of the small island of Brecqhou by...
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Cape Horn (section Lighthouses)
South Pacific Ocean; Lighthouse Press, 2001. ISBN 978-1-57785-202-5 Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Southern Chile". The Lighthouse Directory. University...
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Norah Head Light (category All articles using infobox lighthouse)
and a flag house. Calls for construction of a lighthouse at Norah Head (then "Bungaree Noragh Point") were made as early as 1861 due to many wrecks...
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the port. from Pointe-à-Pitre. The passage at the Pointe du Vieux-Fort lighthouse could even have been decisive for the final victory in the 2018 race during...
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historic, cultural, or scenic interest Monument Wind turbine or farm Lighthouse Hardwood forest or woods Coniferous forest or woods Palm trees Bamboo...
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La Bocayna (section Lighthouses)
blocked by the hills of Lanzarote, becalming ships that were in their lee, tacking towards Lobos was needed to regain the wind. Large breakers were observed...
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Norah Head Lightstation Precinct (category Lighthouses in New South Wales)
Norah Head Lightstation Precinct is a heritage-listed former lighthouse precinct located at Bush Street, Norah Head in the Central Coast local government...
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Fitbit (redirect from Fitbit Smart Tack)
Fitbit Pay, which is a digital wallet that uses NFC to make payments at point of sale. Google has stated their intention to eventually discontinue this...
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raised and lowered. tack 1. A leg of the route of a sailing vessel, particularly in relation to tacking and to starboard tack and port tack. 2. Another name...
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Academic/Plenum Publishers, p70. "The Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse". Lighthouses of Western Australia. Lighthouses of Australia Inc. Retrieved 13 July 2009. Wilder...
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commemorative models and paintings. Every November 10, the Split Rock Lighthouse near Silver Bay, Minnesota, emits a light in honor of Edmund Fitzgerald...
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were active in The Salvation Army, the Boy Scouts of America, and the Lighthouse for the Blind. Fred reportedly also supported the Long Island Jewish Hospital...
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across with the weather sheet or by tacking without releasing the sheet. It is used to heave to or to assist with tacking. See also back and fill. abaft Toward...
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