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South Channel Pile Light
app. 2 miles north of Tootgarook, TOOTGAROOK VIC 3941 - Property No B4357
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The South Channel Pile Light was completed in 1874 to provide a navigation lead light for shipping using this narrow area of deep water in Port Phillip Bay.
It consists of an octagonal two-storied timber frame superstructure supported on a sub-structure of wooden screw piles. The interior piles, specified origianlly as Jarrah, but eventually constructed in red gum, are almost certainly original. However, the perimeter piles were replaced in approximately 1968.
The light
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B4357
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