Tags: Lighthouse, Tower.
Cape Bruny Lighthouse at the southern tip of Bruny Island Tasmania is the second oldest extant lighthouse tower in Australia as well as having the longest (158 years) history of being continuously manned. It was first lit in March 1838 and was eventually decommissioned on 6 August 1996. The project was commissioned by Governor George Arthur in 1835 after a series of shipwrecks south of Bruny Island and construction began in April 1836.