Located at the end of the St. Kilda Marina breakwater, this 'lighthouse' was built when the purpose-built marina was constructed in the period 1966 to 1970. While from even up close it looks very much like a tapered octagonal, white-painted concrete tower lighthouse, in fact, it's made of a steel frame and a fibreglass body. It's approximately 18 metres tall and in a prominent and picturesque location, visible from many places in St Kilda including St Kilda Beach and the St Kilda Pier, and is also visible also from sea. While it was designed to resemble a traditional masonry lighthouse, it was never intended to function as a "real" lighthouse but still it's useful to small boats as a visual daymark, and being floodlit, it illuminates the surrounding area...
Read moreSmallish ‘lighthouse’ - more of a lightpost really - that provides guidance for mariners returning to the St Kilda Marina. It makes for an interesting backdrop to sunset photos taken from the beach, and you can walk around to it for a closer view if...
Read moreBit skinny, not a light home or house its an apartment and i feel sad when i look at it, looks like a lighthouse thats been on a...
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