Qualla: Fingal Head Light https://qualla.com/fingal-head-light en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:03 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/r/6/v/p/fingal-head-light-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Fingal Head Light https://qualla.com/fingal-head-light Fingal Head Light: Introduction https://qualla.com/fingal-head-light/ Photo credit Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0. Before there was a lighthouse, the keeper rowed. Every evening William Arnold pulled his boat across from the Tweed Heads pilot station, climbed the headland, and lit a lantern that his own daughter remembered as looking like a large meat safe perched on a wooden frame resembling a pigeon loft. That was 1872. The contraption did its job, warning ships off a treacherous river mouth, but it was no match for the place it stood on - a knuckle of black rock at Fingal Head where an ancient volcano left behind something extraordinary, and where a proper stone tower would soon take the rower's place.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/6/v/p/fingal-head-light-wp/r6vp-fingal-head-light-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Fingal Head Light: The Giant's Causeway of the South https://qualla.com/fingal-head-light/ Photo credit Alex Douglas, CC BY-SA 3.0. Walk to the edge of the headland and the ground organises itself into geometry. Hundreds of basalt columns, many close to hexagonal, step down toward the sea in interlocking ranks - a formation so like the famous Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland that early visitors borrowed t...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/6/v/p/fingal-head-light-wp/r6vp-fingal-head-light-the-giants-causeway-of-the-south.mp3 0:06 2 full Fingal Head Light: Booninybah, Home of the Echidna https://qualla.com/fingal-head-light/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. Long before any of those European names, this was - and remains - the country of the Bundjalung people, the Minjungbal and Ngandowal speakers who are the traditional custodians of the Tweed. They knew the headland as Booninybah, the home of the giant echidna, and the basalt place...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/6/v/p/fingal-head-light-wp/r6vp-fingal-head-light-booninybah-home-of-the-echidna.mp3 0:06 3 full Fingal Head Light: A Barnet Lighthouse https://qualla.com/fingal-head-light/ Photo credit Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0. In October 1878 the Maritime Board decided the meat-safe lantern would not do. The new tower, completed in 1879, came from the drawing board of James Barnet, the prolific colonial architect whose stamp is on much of nineteenth-century New South Wales. Fingal was the third of five...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/6/v/p/fingal-head-light-wp/r6vp-fingal-head-light-a-barnet-lighthouse.mp3 0:06 4 full Fingal Head Light: Still Burning, Still Warning https://qualla.com/fingal-head-light/ Photo credit Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0. The light has outlived its keepers. In 1920 it was converted to an automatic acetylene apparatus and the station was demanned; by 1923 the cottage and outbuildings had been demolished, leaving the tower to work alone. Electricity arrived in 1980, and today a compact electric beac...

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