Managing Organization:
Raine Island Corporation
Website: http://www.epa.qld.gov.au/about_the_epa/structure/associated_bodies/raine_island_corporation/
Notes:
This tower was never lighted; it always served as a daybeacon only. It was constructed by convict labor. The Raine Island Corporation restored the tower in 1994. Raine Island, in the Great Barrier Reef, has the world's largest population of nesting green turtles.
Description of Tower: Unpainted cylindrical stone tower.
This light is not operational
Date Established: 1844
Date Present Tower Built: 1844
Current Use: Daybeacon.
Open To Public? No.
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