NOTICE TO MARINERS. WILSON'S PROMONTORY LIGHT. Department of Ports and Harbors,

Colonist, Volume II, Issue 189, 12 August 1859, Page 2

NOTICE TO MARINERS. WILSON'S PROMONTORY LIGHT. Department of Ports and Harbors,

Williamstown, June 30. • Notice is hereby given that the light on. Wilson's Promontory will be exhibited, as formerly stated, on the evening of the 15th July next-, and on every night thereafter, from sunset to sunrise The Wilson's Promonlery Lighthouse is situated on the south-eastern part of that headland ; its appr-jxi mute position is latitude 39 degrees 9 minutes S.. longitude 146 degrees 23 minutes E. The light will he a caoptric, first class fixed white light, elevated 342 feet above fie mean level of the sea, and will be seen in clear weather at the distance of about 24 nautic miles, allowing 10. feet for the height of the eye; ana" atlesser distances accoading1 to the state of the atmosphere. . , . ' ... . , " The li_hthouse tower is circular, built of stone, and painted white. The light will be visible to seaward from NIN.E round southerly to W.S.W., excepting that by the intervention of the adjacent islands the light will be eclipsed to vessels upon the undermentioned •bearings from it, and for a few degrees"on either side of them. Bearings of Islands taken from the lighthouse, and . their approximate distances:— . ~ South part of Cleft Island, S.W. by W. _ W., 5J miles. Centre of Rodondo Island, S _ W., G| miles. Centre of Ten-foot Rock, S _ E., 4_ miles. • • Centre of West Moncur Is'and, S E _S., 7k miles. Centre of East Moncur Island, S.E £ E , .8 miles. Centre of Cliffy or South Seal Island, N.E$ N. 17 miles. Centre of North Seal Island, N.E. by N., 16 miles. Centre of Cape Wellington, N.E. "by N. f N., 4_ . miles. . ' • ■ ■■ . r Vessels steering through Bass's Straits, or from Port Phillip, bound eastward round Wilson's Promontory, may first see the light through the gap between Cieft and the adjacent Giennie Island, bearing E N.E ; as they proceed to the southward and eastward it will be eclipsed for a few degrees by Cleft Island. I When the light bears N.E. the channel between Cleft Island and the Rodondo willbeopsn, and vessels may steer direct for the promontory. Vessels to the eastward of the Seal Wands and bound round the promontory, sighting the light bsaring to the southward of S.W., will be to the northward" of the fairway, and should haul out until the light bears S.W.-by W., which bearing will lead them clear of Cliffy and other Seal Islands. All bearings are by compass. Charles Feuquson, Chief Harbor Mastej. — Melbourne Argus.