Item RPI/4/22 - Troubridge Island Lighthouse Stamp

RPI/4/22

Troubridge Island Lighthouse Stamp

Item

1 piece, Artefact

Part of a collection of 36 Australian stamps.

Australian 49c postage stamp issued in 2002 depicting the Troubridge Island Lighthouse, SA, designed and built by a British engineering firm headed by Alexander Gordon an exponent of prefabricated cast-iron lighthouses.

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The lighthouse was completed in 1855 and was the first prefabricated cast iron lighthouse built in Australia. It was built from segments shipped from Britain and bolted together on site. In the late 1970s a new lighthouse was built on Troubridge Hill. In 1981 the Troubridge Island light was fully automated and demanned. Alexander Gordon was a director of the Royal Polytechnic Institution.