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Adele Island
Admiralty Reference # 1640
1951 - present
Ralph Meakins Collection
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Photo by Ralph Meakins
pre 1971 |

Photo by Lyndon O'Grady
2004 |
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Source:
Australian Hydrographic
excerpt of Chart 732- 1991
Adele Island is north east of Cape Leveque at
the entrance to King Sound |
A bolted steel framework tower was built in 1951 It
holds a white flashing light which was origijally acetylene powered with a
lantern house and drum lens. The house and lens were replaced by a solar powered
small self-contained rotating type beacon type FA 251 in 1985. A Racon beacon
was established at the same time.
Heritage listing AHC Database 019841 More from the Ralph
Meakins Collection
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