Morant Point Lighthouse


Morant Point Lighthouse is on the easternmost tip of Jamaica.
Erected in 1841 by Kru men from Africa, it is the oldest lighthouse on the island and the first cast iron lighthouse built in the Western Hemisphere.
It consists of a iron tube, cast in London in 1841, which has a diameter of at the base and at the cap with lantern and gallery, painted with red and white horizontal bands. To protect against surf during hurricanes, a semicircular masonry wall has been built around the seaward side of the base of the lighthouse.
It was designed by Alexander Gordon and built by George Grove, later a leading writer on music.
It is listed by the Jamaica National Heritage Trust as a historic monument, being "of considerable interest to historians of industrial technology".
It is maintained by the , an agency of the .

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