Fitzroy Island
Rainforest-clad island off Cairns with a coral fringing reef, sheltered coves, and a decommissioned wartime lighthouse.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the old lighthouse tower on Fitzroy Island, off the coast of Cairns, follows the odd fix engineers reached for during the Second World War, when the automatic beacon on nearby Little Fitzroy Island stopped being enough for ships crossing Grafton Passage. It reaches back to the Yidiny people who read these reefs long before any light existed, and to hardware borrowed from a lighthouse thousands of kilometres away that let one beam mean two different things. Best heard on the track out past Nudey Beach, looking up at the tower itself.
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