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Low Head Lighthouse, the Glossary

Low Head Lighthouse is in Low Head, Tasmania, about north of George Town on the east side of the mouth of the Tamar River.^[1]

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1833 establishments in Australia
Bass Strait
Lighthouses in Tasmania
Tamar River

Air compressor

An air compressor is a machine that takes ambient air from the surroundings and discharges it at a higher pressure.

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Argand lamp

The Argand lamp is a type of oil lamp invented in 1780 by Aimé Argand.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is an Australian statutory authority responsible for the regulation and safety oversight of Australia's shipping fleet and management of Australia's international maritime obligations.

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Bass Strait

Bass Strait is a strait separating the island state of Tasmania from the Australian mainland (more specifically the coast of Victoria, with the exception of the land border across Boundary Islet).

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Beacon

A beacon is an intentionally conspicuous device designed to attract attention to a specific location.

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BHP Shipping

BHP Shipping was an Australian ship transport and shipbuilding arm of BHP.

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Candela

The candela (or; symbol: cd) is the unit of luminous intensity in the International System of Units (SI).

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Cast iron

Cast iron is a class of iron–carbon alloys with a carbon content of more than 2% and silicon content around 1–3%.

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Catadioptric system

A catadioptric optical system is one where refraction and reflection are combined in an optical system, usually via lenses (dioptrics) and curved mirrors (catoptrics).

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Chance Brothers

Chance Brothers and Company was a glassworks originally based in Spon Lane, Smethwick, West Midlands (formerly in Staffordshire), in England.

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Circumnavigation

Circumnavigation is the complete navigation around an entire island, continent, or astronomical body (e.g. a planet or moon).

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Diaphone

The diaphone is a noisemaking device best known for its use as a foghorn: It can produce deep, powerful tones, able to carry a long distance.

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Duck Reach Power Station

Duck Reach Power Station was the first publicly owned hydro-electric plant in the Southern Hemisphere, and provided the Tasmanian city of Launceston with hydro-electric power from its construction in 1895 to its closure in 1955.

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Flag semaphore

Flag semaphore (from the Ancient Greek σῆμα 'sign' and -φέρω (-) '-bearer') is a semaphore system conveying information at a distance by means of visual signals with hand-held flags, rods, disks, paddles, or occasionally bare or gloved hands.

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Flag signals

Flag signals can mean any of various methods of using flags or pennants to send signals.

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Flinders, Victoria

Flinders is a seaside town on the Mornington Peninsula in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Shire of Mornington Peninsula local government area.

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Fluid bearing

Fluid bearings are bearings in which the load is supported by a thin layer of rapidly moving pressurized liquid or gas between the bearing surfaces.

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Foghorn

A foghorn or fog signal is a device that uses sound to warn vehicles of navigational hazards such as rocky coastlines, or boats of the presence of other vessels, in foggy conditions.

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Freestone (masonry)

A freestone is a type of stone used in masonry for molding, tracery and other replication work required to be worked with the chisel.

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Fresnel lens

A Fresnel lens is a type of composite compact lens which reduces the amount of material required compared to a conventional lens by dividing the lens into a set of concentric annular sections.

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Gas mantle

Coleman white gas lantern mantle glowing at full brightness An incandescent gas mantle, gas mantle or Welsbach mantle is a device for generating incandescent bright white light when heated by a flame.

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George Bass

George Bass (30 January 1771 – after 5 February 1803) was a British naval surgeon and explorer of Australia. Low Head Lighthouse and George Bass are bass Strait.

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George Town, Tasmania

George Town (palawa kani: kinimathatakinta) is a large town in north-east Tasmania, on the eastern bank of the mouth of the Tamar River. Low Head Lighthouse and George Town, Tasmania are bass Strait and Tamar River.

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Halogen lamp

A halogen lamp (also called tungsten halogen, quartz-halogen, and quartz iodine lamp) is an incandescent lamp consisting of a tungsten filament sealed in a compact transparent envelope that is filled with a mixture of an inert gas and a small amount of a halogen, such as iodine or bromine.

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Hebe Reef

Hebe Reef is a reef located about northwest of the mouth of the Tamar River in Tasmania, Australia.

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History of Tasmania

The history of Tasmania begins at the end of the Last Glacial Period (approximately 12,000 years ago) when it is believed that the island was joined to the Australian mainland.

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HMS Buffalo (1797)

HMS Buffalo was a storeship under construction as the merchant vessel Fremantle when the Royal Navy purchased her on the stocks. Low Head Lighthouse and HMS Buffalo (1797) are maritime history of Australia.

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Hydroelectricity

Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power).

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Iron Pot

Iron Pot is a small flat sandstone island with an area of 1.27 ha in south-eastern Australia.

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J. Arthur Reavell

James Arthur Reavell (10 June 1872—26 August 1973) M.I.Mech.E., M.I.Chem.E., F.Inst.F., F.I.M. was a British chemical engineer, who created a major company and was one of the founders and a president of the Institution of Chemical Engineers.

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John Lee Archer

John Lee Archer (26 April 1791 near Chatham, Kent, England – 4 December 1852 in Stanley, Tasmania, Australia) was the Civil Engineer and Colonial Architect in Van Diemen's Land, serving from 1827 to 1838.

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Kerosene

Kerosene, or paraffin, is a combustible hydrocarbon liquid which is derived from petroleum.

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L. Gardner and Sons

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Lantern

A lantern is an often portable source of lighting, typically featuring a protective enclosure for the light sourcehistorically usually a candle, a wick in oil, or a thermoluminescent mesh, and often a battery-powered light in modern timesto make it easier to carry and hang up, and make it more reliable outdoors or in drafty interiors.

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Launceston, Tasmania

Launceston is a city in the north of Tasmania, Australia, at the confluence of the North Esk and South Esk rivers where they become the Tamar River (kanamaluka). Low Head Lighthouse and Launceston, Tasmania are Tamar River.

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Leading lights

Leading lights, also known as range lights in the United States, are a pair of light beacons used in navigation to indicate a safe passage for vessels entering a shallow or dangerous channel; they may also be used for position fixing.

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Lighthouse

A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid, for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.

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Lighthouse keeper

A lighthouse keeper or lightkeeper is a person responsible for tending and caring for a lighthouse, particularly the light and lens in the days when oil lamps and clockwork mechanisms were used.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Low Head

Low Head is a rural residential locality in the local government area (LGA) of George Town in the Launceston LGA region of Tasmania. Low Head Lighthouse and low Head are bass Strait and Tamar River.

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Luminous intensity

In photometry, luminous intensity is a measure of the wavelength-weighted power emitted by a light source in a particular direction per unit solid angle, based on the luminosity function, a standardized model of the sensitivity of the human eye.

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Macquarie Lighthouse

The Macquarie Lighthouse, also known as South Head Upper Light, is the first, and is the longest serving, lighthouse site in Australia.

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Matthew Flinders

Captain Matthew Flinders (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was a British navigator and cartographer who led the first inshore circumnavigation of mainland Australia, then called New Holland.

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Mercury (element)

Mercury is a chemical element; it has symbol Hg and atomic number 80.

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Mirror

A mirror, also known as a looking glass, is an object that reflects an image.

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Mount Direction, Tasmania

Mount Direction is a locality and small rural community in the local government areas of Launceston and George Town, in the Launceston and North-east regions of Tasmania.

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Movement (clockwork)

In horology, a movement, also known as a caliber or calibre (British English), is the mechanism of a watch or timepiece, as opposed to the case, which encloses and protects the movement, and the face, which displays the time.

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National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a combat support agency within the United States Department of Defense whose primary mission is collecting, analyzing, and distributing geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) in support of national security.

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Norfolk (1798 sloop)

The Colonial sloop Norfolk was built on Norfolk Island in 1798 of Norfolk Island Pine.

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Oil spill

An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially the marine ecosystem, due to human activity, and is a form of pollution.

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Penal labour

Penal labour is a term for various kinds of forced labour that prisoners are required to perform, typically manual labour.

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Pilot station

A pilot station is an onshore headquarters for maritime pilots, or a place where pilots can be hired from.

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Piloting

Piloting or pilotage is the process of navigating on water or in the air using fixed points of reference on the sea or on land, usually with reference to a nautical chart or aeronautical chart to obtain a fix of the position of the vessel or aircraft with respect to a desired course or location.

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Pound (currency)

Pound is the name of various units of currency.

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Pressure vessel

A pressure vessel is a container designed to hold gases or liquids at a pressure substantially different from the ambient pressure.

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Reef

A reef is a ridge or shoal of rock, coral, or similar relatively stable material lying beneath the surface of a natural body of water.

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River Derwent (Tasmania)

The River Derwent, also known as timtumili minanya in palawa kani, is a significant river and tidal estuary in Tasmania, Australia.

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Rubble

Rubble is broken stone, of irregular size, shape and texture; undressed especially as a filling-in.

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Sea mark

A sea mark, also seamark and navigation mark, is a form of aid to navigation and pilotage that identifies the approximate position of a maritime channel, hazard, or administrative area to allow boats, ships, and seaplanes to navigate safely.

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Shutter (photography)

In photography, a shutter is a device that allows light to pass for a determined period, exposing photographic film or a photosensitive digital sensor to light in order to capture a permanent image of a scene.

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Smethwick

Smethwick is an industrial town in Sandwell, West Midlands, England.

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Stucco

Stucco or render is a construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water.

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Submarine communications cable

A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the seabed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean and sea.

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Table Cape

Table Cape is an extinct volcano located near Wynyard on the North West of Tasmania, Australia, it is also the name of the locality which encompasses the geological feature. Low Head Lighthouse and Table Cape are lighthouses in Tasmania and Tasmanian Heritage Register.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Head_Lighthouse

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Low Head Lighthouse, the Glossary

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See also

1833 establishments in Australia

Bass Strait

Lighthouses in Tasmania

Tamar River

References