Shine A Light

From weddings to deaths, drunken misbehaviours and a ghost story with so much spook it makes you quiver, a lot happened in the short lifespan of the Cape Northumberland Bay lighthouse off Port MacDonnell in South Australia. President of the Port MacDonnell District Maritime Museum, Veronica Jenkin, revisits some of the logbook entries in this audio clip.

A fear of heights is not fit for a lighthouse keeper. Especially the men who kept the fire burning at Cape Jaffa for one hundred years protecting ships from the most treacherous of currents. Standing 41 metres tall, the Cape Jaffa lighthouse now rests on Marine Parade in the seaside town of Kingston, in South Australia's South East. It has been preserved as a museum to show tourists what life was like on the platform. Only since 1975 has the lighthouse stood on such steady ground - this is the story of the Cape Jaffa lighthouse as told by Frank England.

For over a hundred years it's been the site of Broome's skeletal lighthouse. But the stories of Gantheaume Point stretch back in time over thousands and even millions of years. Come on a tour of the history and dinosaur footprints that make Gantheaume Point an extraordinary part of Australia's coastline.

Malcolm Brack grew up at three of Victoria's lighthouses. More than 50 years after his father took the position at Cape Otway, Malcolm still visits the lighthouse every day.

The Old Cleveland Point Lighthouse was built between 1864-1865 on Cleveland Point, South of Brisbane. One of Queensland's earliest lighthouses, it was erected to light the way for small coastal steamers that serviced the farming settlements along the south coast of Moreton Bay.

Byron Bay's iconic lighthouse sits atop the most easterly point of Australia's mainland; a guide to ships and a beacon in the community.

With its unique location right on the Qld/NSW border, this lighthouse is not only used by the area's largest marine rescue group, but it is also a tribute to Captain Cook's expeditions along the east coast.

This lighthouse may be dwarfed by its counterparts, standing at only seven metres tall, but positioned on top of one of the region's tallest cliffs, it has an elevation of 24 metres, as well as a commanding view of the coastline and Cook Island.

If you've ever driven along the Great Ocean Road or watched a popular children's TV series, the Split Point Lighthouse at Aireys Inlet would be a familiar sight.

Behind the red brick walls of the historic Fort Queenscliff lies a rare black stone lighthouse - one of three which guide ships into the entrance of Port Phillip Bay.

A fatal shipwreck off the coast of East Gippsland in the 1850s, led to the building of an elegant pink granite lighthouse on Gabo Island.

Built in just two years in the late 1800s, the lighthouse at Point Hicks, in remote East Gippsland, lays claim to being the tallest on the Australian mainland.

Adultery, canoodling couples and false teeth; the history of the Point Moore Lighthouse goes far beyond its iconic red and white stripes.

The Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse is situated at the most south westerly tip of Australia, standing at the point where the Indian and Southern Oceans meet.

The Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse is one of two iconic towers in the South West of Western Australia.

Bathurst Lighthouse was built in 1900 on Bathurst Point, Rottnest Island, after a string of nautical disasters.

The lonely Port Fairy Lighthouse is located on Griffiths Island, once known as Rabbit Island.

The Whaler's Bluff Lighthouse guides ships through treacherous reef to the Portland Harbour.

Flagstaff Hill in Warrnambool has not one, but two lighthouses.

Witness to whales, diverse birdlife and hikers on the Great South West Walk, the Cape Nelson Lighthouse is located on Victoria's far west coast near Portland.