2018 $1 200th Anniversary Macquarie Lighthouse PNC

November 30, 2018, marks 200 years since Australia’s first lighthouse - Macquarie Lighthouse – was turned on for the first time. Commissioned by the Governor of New South Wales, Major General Lachlan Macquarie (1762-1824) and designed by the prominent convict architect Francis Greenway (1777-1837), it was the only lighthouse in the area until Hornby Lighthouse (1858), which was built following two maritime disasters at the Heads.