Fort Denison

Fort Denison Light, also known as Pinchgut Light, is an active lighthouse located on top of a Martello Tower at Fort Denison, a former penal site and defensive facility occupying a small island on Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia.

Photo: Benyoch, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Type: Lighthouse
Description: lighthouse in New South Wales, Australia
Also known as: “Fort Denison Light” and “Fort Denison Lighthouse”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Mrs Macquarie’s Chair and Government House.

Mrs Macquarie’s Chair

Photo: Mitch Ames, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Mrs Macquarie's Chair is an exposed sandstone rock cut into the shape of a bench, on a peninsula in Sydney Harbour. It was hand carved by convicts in 1810, for Elizabeth Macquarie, the wife of Major-General Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South Wales. Mrs Macquarie’s Chair is situated 630 metres southwest of Fort Denison.

Government House

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Government House is the heritage-listed vice-regal residence of the governor of New South Wales. It is located on Conservatorium Road in the Sydney central business district, adjacent to the Royal Botanic Garden, and is situated south of the Sydney Opera House, overlooking Sydney Harbour. Government House is situated 1¼ km southwest of Fort Denison.

Taronga Zoo

Zoo

Photo: Janderk, Public domain.

Taronga Zoo Sydney is a government-run public zoo located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, in the Lower North Shore suburb of Mosman, on the shores of Sydney Harbour. Taronga Zoo is situated 2 km northeast of Fort Denison.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kirribilli and Sydney.

Kirribilli

Suburb

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Kirribilli is a suburb on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. One of the city's most established and affluent neighbourhoods, it is located three kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area…

Sydney

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Sydney is the Harbour City, and is the oldest and most cosmopolitan city in Australia with an enviable reputation as one of the world's most beautiful and livable cities.

The Rocks

Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.

The Rocks is sandstone buildings, history, laneways, culture and Australiana by day, and a busy pub scene by night. It is the historical precinct of central Sydney immediately to the north of the City centre on the western side of Sydney Cove, and where the First Fleet set up their first convict settlement.

Fort Denison

Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
Location: New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-33.85475° or 33° 51′ 17″ south

Longitude

151.2259° or 151° 13′ 33″ east

Open location code

4RRH46WG+39

OpenStreetMap ID

node 6086844044

OpenStreetMap feature

man_made=lighthouse

GeoNames ID

8663296

Wikidata ID

Q5471050

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In Other Languages

“Fort Denison” goes by many names.

Turkish: “Fort Denison Deniz Feneri”
Turkish: “Fort Denison Light”

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