Tacking Point Lighthouse
Tacking Point Lighthouse is Australia's thirteenth oldest lighthouse. It was built on a rocky headland about 8 kilometres south of Port Macquarie in 1879 by Shepherd and Joseph William Mortley, to a design by the New South Wales Colonial Architect, James Barnet.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Quartl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: lighthouse in New South Wales, Australia
- Also known as: “Tacking Point Light”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Flynns Beach.
Flynns Beach
Beach
Port Macquarie-Hastings Council is a local government area in the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. The area is located adjacent to the Hastings River, the Pacific Highway, the Oxley Highway and the North Coast railway line. Flynns Beach is situated 4 km north of Tacking Point Lighthouse.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Port Macquarie and Hibbard.
Port Macquarie
Photo: wood26, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Port Macquarie is a coastal beachside city on the New South Wales Mid-North Coast, approximately 400 km north of Sydney and 550 km south of Brisbane. The Port Macquarie–Hastings area had a population of 86,762 in 2021.
Hibbard
Hamlet
Hibbard is an unbounded locality located within the town of Port Macquarie, New South Wales. The Port Macquarie Airport and the Port Macquarie Regional Stadium are both located in Hibbard. Hibbard is situated 8 km northwest of Tacking Point Lighthouse.
Tacking Point Lighthouse
- Categories: lighthouse, tourism, historic site, and historic building
- Location: Port Macquarie-Hastings Council, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-31.47561° or 31° 28′ 32″ southLongitude
152.93726° or 152° 56′ 14″ eastElevation
7 metres (23 feet)Open location code
4RWJGWFP+QWOpenStreetMap ID
node 17022899OpenStreetMap feature
historic=buildingOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=lighthouseOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From French to Swedish—“Tacking Point Lighthouse” goes by many names.
- French: “phare de Tacking Point”
- French: “Phare de Tacking Point”
- German: “Tacking Point Lighthouse”
- German: “Tacking Point-Leuchtturm”
- Swedish: “Tacking Point fyr”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Diamantina Rocks and Lourdes Village.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Tacking Point Lighthouse”. Photo: Quartl, CC BY-SA 3.0.