Apo Reef Light of gallery. The light station on Apo Reef was part of the first approved group of lighthouses in the Maritime Lighting Plan of Spain for the Philippine Archipelago during the Spanish Colonial Period. It was proposed to erect a steel tower with a third-order light on Bajo Apo Island. In 1896, the tower and the lighting apparatus were already purchased complete by the Spanish authorities from France, and they were delivered and stored at the warehouse in Manila. All lighthouse constructions though, were halted with the outbreak of the Philippine Revolution and then the Spanish–American War. When the Americans took
Tiparra Reef Tiparra Reef Tiparra Reef (also spell as Tipara) is a reef located in Spencer Gulf in South Australia about west of the town of Port Hughes. The reef is described as being "a bank of sand, in extent, with depths of less than , that lies in the middle of Tiparra Bay" with a"limestone ledge, long in a N[orth] S[outh] direction and about wide, that just dries, lies on the S[outh] W[est] end of the reef N[orth] W[est] of Cape Elizabeth" (which is the southern headland of Tiparra Bay). The limestone ledge was the site of an operational lighthouse from