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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Archer Point Light is an active lighthouse located on Archer Point, a conical, 60-metre-high (200 ft), grassy headland, about 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) southeast of Cooktown, Queensland, Australia. Originally an 1883 timber frame lighthouse, covered with galvanised iron, it was replaced in 1975 with a modern square concrete equipment room, topped with a lantern. Together with a lighthouse on Rocky Island, now disused, the original light served as a lead light between Hope Islands and the mainland to the south, and between some reefs and the mainland to the north. In 1975 the current lighthouse was built, and was automated and electrically operated to begin with. The base of the old lighthouse still exists at the location. The site and the light are operated by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority. The site is open to the public, and is accessible by a gravel road, but the tower is closed.

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