Tourist attraction
Green Point Lighthouse
Candy-striped colonial tower whose foghorn once drove the whole neighborhood to fury.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Green Point Lighthouse in Cape Town starts with an oil lamp first lit on April 12, 1824, the first solid lighthouse built on this coast, commissioned by acting governor Rufane Donkin and designed by the mason Hermann Schutte. It follows the tower through the 1865 wreck of the steamship Athens nearby, and the 1926 arrival of a foghorn so loud that Green Point neighbors nicknamed it Moaning Minnie and begged the mayor to silence it. Stand below the tower and listen for how long that horn actually lasted.
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