Casquets lighthouses Casquets lighthouses Casquets Lighthouse is an active lighthouse located on the rocky Les Casquets, Alderney, Channel Islands. Casquets Lighthouse is the latest in a series of three lights on Les Casquets. The first lighthouses started operation on 30 October 1724, and were three towers lit by coal fires called St Peter, St Thomas and the Dungeon. Three stone towers were built to give the lights a distinctive appearance which would not be confused with lighthouses in nearby France. They were built by Thomas Le Cocq, owner of the rocks, under license from Trinity House and who was paid a halfpenny
Caloundra Lighthouses active and in situ: Grassy Hill (1886, Grassy Hill Light) at Cooktown and Goods Island (1886) in the Torres Strait. The 1968 lighthouse and signal station is one of only two constructed to this design in Australia, the only one to survive, and one of a small number of concrete lighthouses built in Queensland. In the combination of lighthouse, signals and radar functions in the one structure, the 1968 lighthouse and its ancillary generator shed are important in demonstrating the range of lightstation structures designed for particular locations. Together, the two lighthouses on Caloundra Head, which are both substantially intact