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Lighthouses and Navigational Systems

Green Point Lighthouse • 100 Beach Road • Mouille Point, Cape Town 8005 • South Africa

Tel: +27 449 5171 • Fax: +27 21 449 3663

Email: tamsyn-anne.scipio@transnet.net

LOCATION Latitude 33˚ 54’ 1”S, Longitude 18˚ 24’ 0”E

Lighthouse and Navigational Systems (LNS) is a business unit of the Transnet National Ports Authority. It falls within the Chief Harbour

Master’s portfolio and is mandated by the National Ports Act to provide, operate and maintain lighthouses and other Aids to Navigation

(AtoNs) along the 2 954 km coastline of South Africa.

LNS is a national member of the International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities (IALA-AISM), a non-governmental, non-profit, non-political association concerned with the provision of Marine Aids to Navigation systems and allied activities at sea and on inland waterways. The senior manager of LNS, who represents South Africa at IALA, is the current president of the 225-member internationalorganisation having been elected to this position at the 17^th International Conference in Cape Town in March 2012. This appointment will last four years, until 2014, when the association holds it 18^th international conference in La Coruna, Spain.

LNS Head Office is situated in Mouille Point, Cape Town. Workshops are located along the coast at Port Nolloth, Saldanha, Cape Town,

Port Elizabeth, Durban and Richards Bay. We also have a staff presence at some of the 45 lighthouses on our coastline, from Port

Nolloth on the West Coast to Jesser point (Sodwana Bay) on the East Coast.

Service Offerings

AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM (AIS) NETWORK

This coast wide network of AIS base stations provides real-time information about vessels calling at South Africa’s

eight commercial ports, as well as vessels travelling along our coastline.

VESSEL TRAFFIC SERVICES (VTS) SYSTEM

Our eight commercial ports all make use of VTS, to keep track of vessel movements and provide navigational safety

within port limits. Radar data is used in conjunction with AIS data to do this. LNS is tasked with overseeing VTS at all

eight ports.

PORT AIDS TO NAVIGATION

In addition to VTS, LNS also provides an Aids to Navigation service to Ports by installing, commissioning and

maintaining, buoys, quay lights, breakwater lights, leading lights, sector lights and fog signals.

SOUTH AFRICA’S LIGHTHOUSES

Lighthouses		Nearest Town	Region	Manned	Open to the public
1	Port Nolloth	Port Nolloth	Northen Cape	Yes	No
2	Hondeklipbaai	Hondeklipbaai	Northen Cape
3	Groenriviermond	Garies	Western Cape
4	Doring Bay	Doring Bay	Western Cape
5	Cape St Martin	St Helena	Western Cape
6	Cape Columbine	Paternoster	Western Cape	Yes	Yes
7	North Head	Saldanha	Western Cape
8	South Head	Saldanha	Western Cape
9	Dassen Island	Yzerforntein	Western Cape
10	Robben Island	Cape Town	Western Cape	Yes	No
11	Milnerton	Milnerton	Western Cape
12	Green Point (Cape)	Mouille Point	Western Cape	Yes	Yes
13	Slangkoppunt	Kommetjie	Western Cape	Yes	Yes
14	Cape Point	Cape Point	Western Cape	Yes	No
15	Roman Rocks	Simonstown	Western Cape
16	Cape Hangklip	Pringle Bay	Western Cape
17	Danger Point	Gansbaai	Western Cape	Yes	Yes
18	Quoin Point	Gansbaai	Western Cape
19	Cape Agulhas	L'Agulhas	Western Cape	Yes	Yes
20	Cape Infanta	Infanta-On -River	Western Cape
21	Ystervarkpunt	Gouritsmond	Western Cape
22	Cape St Blaize	Mossel Bay	Western Cape	Yes	Yes
23	Cape Seal	Plettenberg Bay	Western Cape
24	Seal Point (Cape St. Francis)	Cape St Francis	Eastern Cape	Yes	No
25	Cape Recife	Port Elizabeth	Eastern Cape	Yes	No
26	Deal	Port Elizabeth	Eastern Cape
27	Bird Island	Alexandria	Eastern Cape
28	Great Fish Point	Port Alfred	Eastern Cape	Yes	Yes
29	Hood Point	East London	Eastern Cape	Yes	Yes
30	Cape Morgan	Morgan's Bay	Eastern Cape
31	M'Bashe Point	Idutshwu	Eastern Cape	Yes	No
32	Cape Hermes	Port St Johns	Eastern Cape	Yes	No
33	South Sand Bluff	Lusikisiki	Eastern Cape
34	North Sand bluff	Port Edward	KwaZulu Natal
35	Port Shepstone	Port Shepstone	KwaZulu Natal
36	Green Point (Natal)	Scottburgh	KwaZulu Natal	Yes	No
37	Ifafa Beach	Ifafa Beach	KwaZulu Natal
38	Cooper	Durban (on Bluff)	KwaZulu Natal
39	Umhlanga Rocks	Umhlanga	KwaZulu Natal
40	Tugela	Tugela	KwaZulu Natal
41	Durnford	Richards Bay	KwaZulu Natal
42	Richards Bay	Richard's Bay	KwaZulu Natal
43	Cape St Lucia	Kwa Mbonambi	KwaZulu Natal	Yes	No
44	Cape Vidal	St Lucia	KwaZulu Natal
45	Jesser Point	Sodwana	KwaZulu Natal