About Eddystone Point Lighthouse
Eddystone Point Lighthouse is a historic granite lighthouse at Eddystone Point on Tasmania's far north-east coast within Mount William National Park in the Break O'Day municipality. Completed in 1889 from locally quarried granite, the 35-metre tower is one of Australia's tallest and most distinctive lighthouses. It marks a hazardous coastline and remains an active aid to navigation, surrounded by keeper's cottages, windswept coastal heath and the white sands of the Bay of Fires region.
Visitors guide
Visitors can expect a remote coastal setting at the northern end of the Bay of Fires with a tall pink-granite lighthouse tower, former keeper's cottages and outbuildings set on a granite headland. The site offers open ocean views, windswept heathland, granite rocks and adjacent beaches. The lighthouse exterior, cottages and interpretive signage can be viewed and photographed from the grounds; the tower interior is generally closed to the public. Access is via unsealed gravel roads through Mount William National Park.
Key highlights
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35-metre granite tower built in 1889 from locally quarried Eddystone granite
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One of Australia's most distinctive and tallest lighthouses, still an active aid to navigation
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Intact lighthouse precinct with keeper's cottages and historic outbuildings
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Dramatic coastal headland location at the northern end of the Bay of Fires