{{Short description|Lighthouse in South Australia}} {{About|the lighthouse in South Australia|the nearby headland |Cape Banks }} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2017}} {{Use Australian English|date=May 2017}} {{Infobox lighthouse | image_name = Cape Banks lighthouse.JPG | caption = The Cape Banks Lighthouse in 2010 | location = Carpenter Rocks, South Australia,<ref name="LMV"/>{{efn|Sources such as Australian Government and the United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency state that the lighthouse is located on Cape Banks<ref name=AHD/><ref name=NGA219>{{cite enroute|175|2017|231}}</ref> while other sources as the Government of South Australia (i.e. the authority for placenames in its jurisdiction) and the Boating Industry Association of South Australia show the lighthouse to be located on an unnamed headland at the northern end of the next bay to the west of the bay where Cape Banks is located.<ref name=BIA/><ref name="LMV-headland">{{cite web |title=Search results for 'Cape Banks' with the following datasets selected - 'NPW and Conservation Properties', 'Suburbs and Localities' and 'Gazetteer' |url=http://location.sa.gov.au/viewer/?map=roads&x=140.41599&y=-37.9139&z=13&uids=41,19,105&pinx=140.396890&piny=-37.919010&pinTitle=Location&pinText=Cape+Banks,+Cape |website=Location SA Map Viewer |publisher=Government of South Australia |access-date=19 December 2018}}</ref>}} Australia | coordinates = {{coord|37.899067|S|140.375064|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}<ref name="LMV">{{cite web |title=Search results for 'Cape Banks Lighthouse' with the following datasets selected - 'NPW and Conservation Properties', 'Suburbs and Localities' and 'Gazetteer' |url=http://location.sa.gov.au/viewer/?map=roads&x=140.39815&y=-37.90301&z=13&uids=41,19,105&pinx=140.376460&piny=-37.897610&pinTitle=Location&pinText=Cape+Banks+Lighthouse,+Lh |website=Location SA Map Viewer |publisher=Government of South Australia |access-date=19 December 2018}}</ref> | yearbuilt = 1882-83<ref name=NYD1883/><ref name=March1882>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91291239 |title=MARINE BOARD OPERATIONS. |newspaper=South Australian Weekly Chronicle |volume=XXIV |issue=1,231 |location=South Australia |date=25 March 1882 |access-date=14 May 2017 |page=22 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> | yearlit = 1883<ref name=NYD1883>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article33754022 |title=COUNTRY TELEGRAMS. |newspaper=The South Australian Advertiser |volume=XXV |issue=7552 |location=South Australia |date=2 January 1883 |access-date=14 May 2017 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> | automated = 1928<ref name=automation>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article200062467 |title=MOUNT GAMBIER AND DISTRICT. |newspaper=The South Eastern Times |issue=2209 |location=South Australia |date=1 June 1928 |access-date=14 May 2017 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> | construction = limestone masonry<ref name=AHD>{{cite AHD|8265|| title= Cape Banks Lighthouse, Cape Banks Rd, Carpenter Rocks, SA, Australia - listing on the now-defunct Register of the National Estate| publisher=Department of Environment and Energy, the Australian Government |date=21 October 1980 }}</ref> | shape = “round limestone tower with lantern and gallery”<ref name=Rowlett>{{Cite rowlett|sa|access-date=19 December 2018}}</ref> | marking = tower painted bright orange-red, lantern white<ref name=Rowlett/> | height = {{convert|15|m | ft }}<ref name=Rowlett/><ref name=AHD/>{{efn|Sources such as Rowlett and the State Library of South Australia state that the lighthouse’s height was increased to 15 metres in 1928, however photographs taken in both 1910 and 2010 show a building with no change in height.<ref name=SLSA>{{cite web | url= http://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+2015 | title= Cape Banks Lighthouse (B 2015) - Photograph (please refer 'Info' tab) | publisher=State Library of South Australia |date= 23 March 2005| work= Cape Banks Collection | access-date=15 May 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Fairv8 |title=Cape Banks lighthouse |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cape_Banks_lighthouse.JPG | publisher= Wikimedia |date=19 April 2010| access-date=15 May 2017}}</ref>}} | focalheight = {{convert|25|m | ft }}<ref name=Rowlett/> | lens = “3rd order Fresnel lens”<ref name=Rowlett/> | range = {{convert|18|nmi}}<ref name=BIA>{{Citation | author1=Boating Industry Association of South Australia (BIA) | author2=South Australia. Department for Environment and Heritage | title=South Australia's waters an atlas & guide | date=2005 | publisher=Boating Industry Association of South Australia | isbn=978-1-86254-680-6 |page=178}}</ref> | characteristic = two white flashes every 10 s<ref name=BIA/> | managingagent = Australian Maritime Safety Authority | heritage =State heritage place<ref name=sahr/> }}
'''Cape Banks Lighthouse''' is a lighthouse in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state's south-east on an unnamed headland in the gazetted locality of Carpenter Rocks about {{convert|2.5|km}} north-west of the locality's town centre.<ref name=AHD/>
The siting of a lighthouse near Cape Banks was discussed as early as 1880, in conjunction with the rebuilding of the Cape Northumberland Lighthouse because it was suggested as a suitable site for the “optical apparatus” from the above-mentioned lighthouse to be reused and because it was a location “where so many shipping casualties have occurred.”<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article43112091 |title=REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE MARINE BOARD FOR 1879 |newspaper=South Australian Register |volume=XLV |issue=10,426 |location=South Australia |date=14 April 1880 |access-date=14 May 2017 |page=1 (SUPPLEMENT TO THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN REGISTER) |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
In March 1882, construction of the new lighthouse at “the Carpenter Rocks, adjacent to Cape Banks” was announced. The proposal with a budget of £3,770 involved the reuse of the “catoptric apparatus now at Cape Northumberland lighthouse.“ The lighthouse was described as being about {{convert|30|ft|m||order=flip}} high with the light's focal plane being about {{convert|60|ft|m| order=flip}} about the high water mark and that it would be visible as far away as {{convert|10|-|12|mi|km|order=flip}}.<ref name=March1882/>
On 27 July 1882, Goss & Lambert of Mount Gambier was contracted for an amount of “about £3,000“ to build the “lighthouse, a store, and two lightkeepers' cottages.”<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article43329612 |title=TURKISH INTERVENTION IN EGYPT. |newspaper=South Australian Register |volume=XLVII |issue=11,142 |location=South Australia |date=31 July 1882 |access-date=14 May 2017 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
The light was first used on 1 January 1883.<ref name=NYD1883/> In May 1928, an automated light was commissioned resulting in the departure of the keeper and their family.<ref name=automation/> Offers for either the removal of the keepers’ cottages or for the lease of the cottages and associated land for periods of five or ten years were advertised in the press by the Commonwealth Department of Works and Railways in August 1928.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article57057251 |title=Advertising |newspaper=The Register (Adelaide) |volume=XCIII |issue=27,148 |location=South Australia |date=18 August 1928 |access-date=14 May 2017 |page=20 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> The cottages and the store were subsequently demolished.<ref name=AHD/>
The lighthouse has been listed as a state heritage place on the South Australian Heritage Register since 11 November 1999. Its significance is reported as follows:<ref name=sahr>{{cite web | url= http://maps.sa.gov.au/heritagesearch/HeritageItem.aspx?p_heritageno=16337| title= Cape Banks Lighthouse | publisher=Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources | work=South Australian Heritage Register | access-date=13 May 2017}}</ref><blockquote>The Cape Banks Lighthouse is important in the maritime history of South Australia and the establishment of navigation aids during the late 19th century. It represents developments in lighthouse technology and design of the time. The lantern house, re-used from the original Cape Northumberland Lighthouse, is of particular significance as one of only three Deville and Company lanterns remaining in Australia. Like one of the other lanterns (at Cape Borda) the lantern house at Cape Banks is of a distinctive fourteen-sided design.(HSA Assessment Report 1999)</blockquote>
The lighthouse also appeared on the now-defunct Register of the National Estate.<ref name=AHD/>
The cadastral unit of land which includes the lighthouse was added to the Canunda National Park on 14 August 1997.<ref name =SAGG1997>{{cite journal|title=NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE ACT 1972 PART 3: ALTERATION OF BOUNDARIES OF RESERVES | journal=The South Australian Government Gazette |date= 14 August 1997 |page= 336 |url= https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/sa_gazette/1997/98/336.pdf |access-date= 19 December 2018|publisher=Government of South Australia}}</ref>
==See also== {{Portal|South Australia|Engineering}} *List of lighthouses in Australia *List of state heritage places in the District Council of Grant
==Notes and references== ===Notes=== {{Notelist}}
===References=== {{Reflist}}
===Attribution=== *{{CC-notice|cc=by3au|url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/heritagesearch/HeritageItem.aspx?p_heritageno=16337 |author=Government of South Australia}}
==External links== *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciXRGFRkxCQ Cape Banks Lighthouse video on YouTube]
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Category:Lighthouses in South Australia Category:Lighthouses completed in 1883 Category:1883 establishments in Australia Category:Limestone Coast Category:South Australian Heritage Register Category:South Australian places listed on the defunct Register of the National Estate