25 lighthouses catalogued on the New South Wales coast.
New South Wales has the longest continuous lighthouse history of any Australian state — the Macquarie Lighthouse at South Head, first lit in 1818, was the colony's first major public building and remains the oldest operating lighthouse in Australia. The state's coast runs 2,137 kilometres from Tweed Heads to Cape Howe, studded with headland lights that marked the approach to Sydney, the dangerous Coffs coast, and the bar harbours of the north.