If you've ever driven along the Great Ocean Road or watched a popular children's TV series, the Split Point Lighthouse at Aireys Inlet would be a familiar sight.

If you've ever driven along the Great Ocean Road or watched a popular children's TV series, the Split Point Lighthouse at Aireys Inlet would be a familiar sight.

Behind the red brick walls of the historic Fort Queenscliff lies a rare black stone lighthouse - one of three which guide ships into the entrance of Port Phillip Bay.

A fatal shipwreck off the coast of East Gippsland in the 1850s, led to the building of an elegant pink granite lighthouse on Gabo Island.

A fatal shipwreck off the coast of East Gippsland in the 1850s, led to the building of an elegant pink granite lighthouse on Gabo Island.

Built in just two years in the late 1800s, the lighthouse at Point Hicks, in remote East Gippsland, lays claim to being the tallest on the Australian mainland.

Adultery, canoodling couples and false teeth; the history of the Point Moore Lighthouse goes far beyond its iconic red and white stripes.

The Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse is situated at the most south westerly tip of Australia, standing at the point where the Indian and Southern Oceans meet.

The Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse is one of two iconic towers in the South West of Western Australia.

Bathurst Lighthouse was built in 1900 on Bathurst Point, Rottnest Island, after a string of nautical disasters.