Tags: Lighthouse, Tower.
Completed in 1849 the original 20-metre (66 ft) Wadjemup Lighthouse (also known as Rottnest Island Light Station) was Western Australia’s first stone lighthouse and was built to provide a safer sailing passage for ships to Fremantle Port and the Swan River Colony.A second and larger replacement tower was built on the same site in 1896. It is the fourth oldest extant lighthouse in Western Australia and was Australia’s first rotating beam lighthouse.
