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Green Point Lighthouse, KwaZulu Natal

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Construction
  
cast iron tower

Current lens
  
Fresnel lens

Opened
  
1905

Focal height
  
85 metres (279 ft)

Height
  
21 m

Year first constructed
  
1905

Green Point Lighthouse, KwaZulu-Natal

Location
  
Umzinto KwaZulu-Natal South Africa

Tower shape
  
tapered cylindrical tower with double balcony and lantern

Markings / pattern
  
tower with red and white bands, white lantern

The Green Point Lighthouse is a provincial heritage site in Umzinto in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.

In 1995 it was described in the Government Gazette as an "unusual cast-iron structure, erected in 1905, [...] the oldest lighthouse on the KwaZulu-Natal coast."

References

Green Point Lighthouse, KwaZulu-Natal Wikipedia