Sydney Bar Lighthouse

The Sydney Bar Lighthouse marks the western end of the bar at the entrance to the South Arm of Sydney Harbour, on Cape Breton Island. The station has gone through three generations: an 1872 lantern on a square caisson dwelling, a 1912 replacement, and the present 1948 skeleton tower on a square building. The current aid is still standing and operational.

Each generation carried the light a little further into the modern era: the 1872 caisson light showed fixed red, the 1912 tower carried a 4th order dioptric lens and mechanical fog bell, and the present 1948 tower displays a fixed green light with an electric lantern and fog horn. Sitting at roughly five feet tall but 29 feet above the water, the current caisson light is part of the busy Sydney Harbour approaches along the Marconi Trail, just minutes from downtown Sydney.