List of lighthouses in South Africa

Umhlanga Lighthouse

This is a list of lighthouses in South Africa. It contains currently active lights as well as decommissioned lights of historical importance.

Lighthouses

Lighthouse	Located near	Coordinates	Year built	Structure	Focal plane	ALN	Notes
Bird Island	Bird Island[1]	33°50′29.72″S 26°17′13.55″E / 33.8415889°S 26.2870972°E [1]	1852-12-01, 1873-05-01[1]	26 m masonry tower[1]	30 m[1]	D6412[2]	The Doddington sank at the island in 1755.[1]
Bluff	Durban, KZN	29°52′40″S 31°03′50″E / 29.87778°S 31.06389°E	1867-01-12	concrete tower			discontinued 1940-10-16, later demolished, coordinates are for the original iron tower [3][4][5]
Cape Agulhas	Cape Agulhas, WC	34°49′08″S 20°00′33″E / 34.81889°S 20.00917°E	1849-03-01	27 m tower	31 m HW	D6370[6]	National monument [7] Provincial Heritage Site[8]
Cape Columbine	Paternoster, WC	32°48′39″S 17°51′23″E / 32.81083°S 17.85639°E	1936-10-01	15 m masonry tower	80 m HW	D5810[9]	[10]
Cape Hangklip		34°23′11.4″S 18°49′42.3″E / 34.386500°S 18.828417°E	1960-11-25	22 m concrete tower	34 m HW	D6280[11]	[3]
Cape Hermes	Port St. Johns	31°38′06″S 29°33′23″E / 31.63500°S 29.55639°E	1903-05-01, 1904-10-16	13 m stone tower	55 m	D6442[12]	[13]
Cape Infanta		34°28′18.76″S 20°50′47.09″E / 34.4718778°S 20.8464139°E	1979-03-15	15 m aluminium lattice tower	53 m MSL	D6371[6]	[14]
Cape Morgan	Morgan's Bay	32°42′26″S 28°21′55″E / 32.70722°S 28.36528°E	1964-02-05	12 m aluminium tower	60 m	D6434[12]	[15]
Cape Point	Simon's Bay, WC	34°21′24″S 18°30′00″E / 34.35667°S 18.50000°E	1860-05-01, 1919-03-11	9 m masonry tower	87 m HW	D6120[16]	[16][17]
Cape Recife	Algoa Bay, EC	34°01′43.97″S 25°42′03.90″E / 34.0288806°S 25.7010833°E	1851-04-01	24 m masonry tower	28 m	D6390[2]	[18]
Cape Seal	Plettenberg Bay	34°06′27.6″S 23°24′22.83″E / 34.107667°S 23.4063417°E	1950-05-11	6 m tower	146 m	D6384[19]	[14]
Cape St. Blaize	Mossel Bay	34°11′09.45″S 22°09′25.14″E / 34.1859583°S 22.1569833°E	1864-03-15	20.5 masonry tower	73 m	D6378[19]	[20]
Cape St. Lucia		28°30′54″S 32°24′00″E / 28.51500°S 32.40000°E	1906-12-15, 1915	8 m cast iron tower	113 m	D6484	[21][22][23]
Cape St. Martin	St Helena Bay, WC	32°42′53″S 17°55′18.53″E / 32.71472°S 17.9218139°E	1977-12-12	10 m aluminium lattice tower	18 m	D5801[9]	[24]
Cape Vidal	Cape Vidal Forestry Reserve, KZN	28°08′51.98″S 32°33′10.77″E / 28.1477722°S 32.5529917°E	1985-07-08	23 m concrete tower	64.5 m MSL	D6485[23]	painted yellow [25]
Castle Point	East London, CC		1860-08-25	wood			decommissioned 1895 [22][24]
Cooper Light	Brighton Beach, Durban, KZN	29°56′05″S 31°00′15″E / 29.93472°S 31.00417°E	1953-07-31	21 m concrete tower	134 m	D6458[26]	[27]
Danger Point		34°37′48.8″S 19°18′10.9″E / 34.630222°S 19.303028°E	1895-01-01	masonry tower	45 m	D6320[6]	[28]
Dassen Island	Dassen Island, WC	33°25′54″S 18°05′22″E / 33.43167°S 18.08944°E	1893-04-15	28 m iron tower	47 m	D5860[29]	[30]
Deal Light	Papenkuils river mouth	33°54′56″S 25°36′52″E / 33.91556°S 25.61444°E	1973-11-01	22 m aluminium lattice tower	26.9 m	D6400[2]	[1]
Doringbaai	Doringbaai	31°49′00″S 18°14′00″E / 31.81667°S 18.23333°E[31]	1963-04-02	21 m aluminum lattice tower	36 m	D5734[31]	[32]
Durnford	Port Durnford Forestry Reserve	28°55′00″S 31°55′30″E / 28.91667°S 31.92500°E	1916-03-01	12 m steel tower	49 m	D6482[33]	[34]
Great Fish	Port Alfred	33°31′10″S 27°06′34″E / 33.51944°S 27.10944°E	1898-07-01	9 m masonry tower	85 m	D6416[12]	[35]
Green Point	Green Point, WC	33°54′04″S 18°24′02″E / 33.90111°S 18.40056°E	1824-04-12	16 m masonry tower	20 m HW	D5900[16]	[36][37] National monument and Provincial Heritage site[38]
Green Point	Umzinto, KZN	30°14′56.1″S 30°46′38.9″E / 30.248917°S 30.777472°E	1905	21 m cast iron tower	86 m	D6454[26]	[39][40]
Groenriviermond		30°51′53″S 17°34′49″E / 30.86472°S 17.58028°E	1988-11-21	17.2 m concrete tower	27.3 m	D5720[31]	[41]
The Hill	Port Elizabeth, EC		1861-06-01				decommissioned 1973-10-31 [30]
Hondeklipbaai		30°18′30.7″S 17°16′17.8″E / 30.308528°S 17.271611°E	1936-02-15, 1956-02-15	8 m steel tower	29 m	D5704[31]	[32]
Hood Point	East London, EC	33°02′25.96″S 27°53′55.00″E / 33.0405444°S 27.8986111°E	1895-06-04	19 m masonry tower	55 m	D6420[12]	[42]
Ifafa Beach		30°27′46.7″S 30°39′08.4″E / 30.462972°S 30.652333°E	1980-02-04	23 m tower	35.1 m MSL	D6452[26]	[43]
Jesser Point	Sordwana Bay, KZN	27°32′41.35″S 32°33′40.81″E / 27.5448194°S 32.5613361°E	1986-04	concrete tower	61 m MSL	D6486[23]	[25]
M'bashe Point		32°14′27.1″S 28°54′54″E / 32.240861°S 28.91500°E[12]	1926-12-03	14 m lattice steel tower	47 m	D6438[12]	[44]
Milnerton	Milnerton, WC	33°52′53.47″S 18°29′18.52″E / 33.8815194°S 18.4884778°E	1960-03-10	21 m concrete tower	28 m	D5910[45]	[46]
Mouille Point		33°54′00″S 18°25′19″E / 33.90000°S 18.42194°E[47]	1842-07-01, 1865				Discontinued in 1908, demolished on or after 1921.[48]
North Head	Saldanha Bay, WC	33°03′00″S 17°54′42″E / 33.05000°S 17.91167°E	1939-07-12, 1969-12-02	21 m aluminum tower	33 m	D5830[9]	[31][49]
North Sand		31°03′24″S 30°13′33″E / 31.05667°S 30.22583°E	1968-07-17	21 m alumunium lattice tower	38 m	D6448[12]	[50]
Port Nolloth	Port Nolloth, NC	29°14′58.36″S 16°52′08.48″E / 29.2495444°S 16.8690222°E	1909	11 m aluminium lattice tower	17 m	D5660[31]	[21]
Port Shepstone	Umzinkulu River mouth, KZN	30°44′30.1″S 30°27′33.0″E / 30.741694°S 30.459167°E	1895, ~1905	8 m cast iron tower	24 m	D6450[12]	[35]
Quoin Point		34°46′49.77″S 19°38′24.91″E / 34.7804917°S 19.6402528°E	1955-03-02, 1990-10	21 m steel tower	32 m	D6332[6]	[48]
Richards Bay	Richards Bay, KZN	28°46′30.3″S 32°07′41.1″E / 28.775083°S 32.128083°E	1979-05-22	11 m concrete tower	72 m MSL	D6483[23]	[34]
Robben Island	Robben Island, WC	33°48′52.20″S 18°22′29.25″E / 33.8145000°S 18.3747917°E	1865-01-01	18 m masonry tower	47 m	D5870[29]	[51]
Roman Rock	Simon's Town, WC	34°10′54″S 18°27′42″E / 34.18167°S 18.46167°E[16]	1845,[52] 1861-09-16	cast iron tower	17 m HW	D6140[53]	[54]
Seal Point	Cape St. Francis, EC	34°12′44.79″S 24°50′11.92″E / 34.2124417°S 24.8366444°E	1878-07-04	27.75 m masonry tower	36 m	D6386[19]	National monument [55] Provincial Heritage site[56] Construction started in 1875.[57]
Slangkop	Kommetjie	34°08′54.59″S 18°19′11.89″E / 34.1484972°S 18.3199694°E	1919-03-04	33 m iron tower	41 m HW	D6110[16]	[58]
South Head	Saldanha Bay, WC	33°06′19.44″S 17°57′18.01″E / 33.1054000°S 17.9550028°E	1969-12-02	21 m aluminum tower	34 m	D5831[9]	[49]
South Sand	EC	31°19′38.10″S 29°57′41.11″E / 31.3272500°S 29.9614194°E	1931-08-21	21 m steel tower	82 m	D6446[12]	[50]
Tugela		29°13′19.8″S 31°30′15.9″E / 29.222167°S 31.504417°E	1972-11-22	21 m aluminium lattice tower	36 m	D6481[33]	[43]
Umhlanga Rocks	Durban, KZN	29°43′41.57″S 31°05′18.20″E / 29.7282139°S 31.0883889°E	1954-11-25	21 m concrete tower	25 m	D6480[33]	[15]
Ystervarkpunt		34°23′26″S 21°43′05″E / 34.39056°S 21.71806°E	1964-08-04	21 m aluminium tower	51 m	D6374[6]	[46]

See also

• List of lighthouses and lightvessels
• Transnet National Ports Authority
• List of shipwrecks in South Africa

Gallery

• 
  Seal Point Lighthouse
• 
  Green Point Lighthouse, Cape Town

References

• Lighthouses of South Africa. Portnet. 1991. ISBN 0-620-16367-4.
• "Section 1 - List of Lights and Radio Signals". List of Lights, Fog Signals, Radio Navigational Aids and Radio Services (2008 ed.). South African Navy, Hydrographic Office. ISBN 9780958407175.
• Williams, Harold A. (1993). Southern lights: lighthouses of Southern Africa. Rivonia: William Waterman publications. ISBN 0-9583751-1-9.

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2. SA Navy (2008), p.21.
3. Portnet (1991), p.32.
4. Ingram, Joseph Forsyth (1895). The colony of Natal; an official illustrated handbook and railway guide. J. Causton and sons. p. 82.
5. Natal Almanac, Directory and Yearly Register. 1897. p. 531.
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7. Portnet (1991), p.19.
8. "Cape LAgulhas Lighthouse Bredasdorp District". South African Heritage Resources Agency. Retrieved 7 December 2010.
9. SA Navy (2008), p.14.
10. Portnet (1991), p.31.
11. SA Navy (2008), p.18.
12. SA Navy (2008), p.22.
13. Portnet (1991), p.37.
14. Portnet (1991), p.22.
15. Portnet (1991), p.14.
16. SA Navy (2008), p.17.
17. Portnet (1991), p.33.
18. Portnet (1991), p.27.
19. SA Navy (2008), p.20.
20. Portnet (1991), p.23.
21. Portnet (1991), p.36.
22. Williams (1993), p.x.
23. SA Navy (2008), p.26.
24. Portnet (1991), p.30.
25. Portnet (1991), p.34.
26. SA Navy (2008), p.23.
27. Portnet (1991), p.9.
28. Portnet (1991), p.25.
29. SA Navy (2008), p.15.
30. Portnet (1991), p.42.
31. SA Navy (2008), p.13.
32. Portnet (1991), p.20.
33. SA Navy (2008), p.24.
34. Portnet (1991), p.40.
35. Portnet (1991), p.38.
36. Williams (1993), p.1.
37. Portnet (1991), p.17.
38. "Green Point Lighthouse Cape Town". South African Heritage Resources Agency. Retrieved 7 December 2010.
39. Williams (1993), p.93.
40. Portnet (1991), p.11.
41. Portnet (1991), p.21.
42. Portnet (1991), p.39.
43. Portnet (1991), p.18.
44. Portnet (1991), p.29.
45. SA Navy (2008), p.16.
46. Portnet (1991), p.6.
47. Lighthouses. Return to an Address of ... the House of Commons, dated 15 April 1850;- for, "Statement of what measures have been adopted respecting the erection, management and superintendence of lighthouses in the British colonies and possessions (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, no.225, of Session 1849)" "and, Abstract of any Returns received from the colonies upon the subject since April 1849.". H. Hansard. 1850. Retrieved 8 December 2010.
48. Portnet (1991), p.24.
49. Portnet (1991), p.16.
50. Portnet (1991), p.28.
51. Portnet (1991), p.41.
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55. Portnet (1991), p.15.
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External links

• Baillie-Cooper, Simon (2006-07-23) Lighthouses of South Africa
• Lighthouse Map and Light Characteristics: Lighthouses, South Africa