NOTICE TO MARINERS. GABO ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 226, 10 September 1862, Page 4

NOTICE TO MARINERS. GABO ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE.

In accordance with a Notice to Mariners mxw\ from this office on the Gth of May, ISO 2, the old fixed light"on Gabo Island wa-s extinguished, and first order c.ata<lioptric fixed white light was exhibit*! from the new towor on the evening of tho °olh ia^t whicli will continue lit from henceforth between sunset and sunrise.

The new lighthouse stands S. 40 deg. E. 1 200 yards from the old one, about one cable's length N W £ W. from the S.E. point of Gabo Island : its approximate position is lafc. 37deg. 34min. Siec. S Ion" 119Jeg. 55 7uiin. E. The tower ia circular, built of grey granite, and remains its natural colour • the light-room and top of lantern are painted lidit grey. fc

_ The light is 174 ft. above the lerel of the sea and is visible to seaward, in ordinary clear weather, at a distance of twenty miles from about iV.N.E round by F and S. to W. j S., allowing 10 feet for the height of the eye.

The new lighthouse being-further to the S.Ethan the old lighthouse, vessels from the northward will see it over the shoulder of Cape Howe about threequarters of a point further to the south-east than the old light was visible; consequently the new light will be seen by them sooner and show more in shore tiian the old one did.

Vessels to the westward of Gabo Island, ami standing to the northward between it and Mallagoota Point, will avoid the low island.of Tallaburga, and the reef to the southward of it, by not shutting in the licrhr, which is screened towards Tallaburga and the mainland on a W. £ S. and J{. * N. bearing. The following bearings and approximate distances are giving from the light: Cape Howe, N. 27 deg. £•>" yevc and three-quarter miles j Mount Howe, N. •JO> deg. W.; south end of Tallaburga Island, W. four miles ■ Genoa Peak, S. S9deg. 23min. W. : Ram Head, S. 48deg. W. AH bearings are by compass. Chakles Feruuson, n ■ \ ". ~ n Chief Harbour Master. Department of Ports and Harbours Williamstown, August 26,1862.