International Lighthouse & Lightship Weekend
18th / 19th August 2001
The NERGs are planning
to set up an Amateur Radio Stationat the Time Ball
at Point Gellibrand Park in Williamstown, Victoria Australia.
To get there (Melways map56:F-10), travel to Williamstown (just 10 minutes from Melbourne over the Westgate bridge), follow Melbourne Road and left into Ferguson Street, continue through the Williamstown Shopping centre, right into Nelson Place (along the main waterfront) and continue past the huge Tenix dockyard to Point Gellibrand Park at Battery Road. Stop before you fall in the water. The Timeball tower is the tall square grey bluestone structure.
For more on the ILLW, see:
http://vk2ce.com/illw and http://vk2ce.com/illw/2001.htm
For more on the Williamstown lighthouse see Grant and Tracey Maizles excellent Lighthouse site at:
http://www.maizels.nu/lights/vic/williamstown/
For the history of the Time Ball at Point Gellibrand see:
http://au.geocities.com/aust_lighthouses2/williamstown/williamstown_lighthouse.htm
More about the Williamstown Lighthouse (Timeball Tower).
http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/heritage/register/site.pl?005516
The history of the Point Gellibrand Lighthouse can be found at:
http://au.geocities.com/aust_lighthouses2/gellibrand/gellibrand_lighthouse.htm
and for more Australian lighthouses see Malcolm MacDonalds:
http://www.lighthouse.net.au/lights/Default3.htm
and for Victorian Lighthouses see Kristie Eggleston's:
http://au.geocities.com/aust_lighthouses/index.htm