Hornby Lighthouse (The Hornby Lighthouse) is located on the southern peninsula of (South Head peninsula), on the eastern outskirts of New South Wales capital Sydney, in the Watsons Bay (Watsons Bay), about 10 kilometers from the city of Sydney.
The Hornby Lighthouse is also known as the Lower Nantou lighthouse (South Head Lower Light), corresponds to the Macquarie lighthouse (Macquarie Lighthouse), which is also known as the Upper Nantou lighthouse (South Head Upper Light) in the Nantou Peninsula.
Built in 1858, Hornby Lighthouse was built immediately after the sinking of a ship in (Dunbar on South Head), the third oldest lighthouse in New South Wales. The lighthouse, 9.1 meters high, is built by grinding curved sandstone mined locally. The lighthouse is cylindrical in shape with distinctive red and white vertical stripes and a 360-degree transparent glass observation room at the top. The lighthouse was fully automated in 1933 and is now unattended.
Hornby Lighthouse guards the entrance to (Sydney Harbour), the port of Sydney, to greet the first rays of sunshine every day for Sydney. Because of its beautiful location, it has become one of the important tourist landmarks in Sydney.
