Bedout Island
Admiralty Reference # 1675
1909 - present
Ralph Meakins Collection
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Photo by Ralph Meakins |
Bedout Island is situated in the Indian Ocean
about 30 miles north east of
Port Hedland on the outer edge of reefs subject to extreme tidal ranges.
The tower shown in these photos (pre 1970) was demolished in 1980 and
replaced with a stainless steel lattice tower 17.5m high. This was the first
use of a stainless steel lattice open lattice framework tower in Western
Australia and used tubular legs (see close up below) with clamping plates to
bolt the bracings to. It was equipped with a white fourth-order dioptric AGA
patent light fuelled with dissolved acetylene. Ref:
Cumming et al
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Photo by Ralph Meakins
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Photo by Ralph Meakins
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The Lantern House of the original tower above,
was refurbished and recycled as the lantern house of the new Hillary's
Boat Harbour Tower.
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Bedout Island
Detail from Photo by
Ralph Meakins
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Hillarys Boat
Harbour
Photo by Pauline O'Brien
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The original lens is in the care of the WA
Maritime Museum, on loan from AMSA, but is not currently on show to the
public.
A Racon beacon was established in 1985 and the
light was converted to solar power in 1988. An automatic weather station is
maintained on the island.
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