Rottnest Island Lighthouse
Limestone tower crowned by a hand-ground Victorian glass optic, still flashing across the sea from thirty-eight metres up.
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This guide to Wadjemup Lighthouse on Rottnest Island, near Perth, turns away from the limestone tower and toward the glass optic at its top, a first order lens ground in Birmingham by the Chance Brothers workshop that also glazed the Crystal Palace and gave Big Ben its clock dials. You will hear how that apparatus crossed the world in eighteen ninety-five and was assembled by hand above the Indian Ocean. It follows the engineers and keepers who tended a beam built to guide ships toward Fremantle.
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