Lighthouse Maqueira was the first and most long existing lighthouse in Australia. It is located on Cape Dunbar, 2 km South of the southern Cape, near the entrance to Sydney Harbour. It was there from 1791 was located navigation equipment, and 1818, he worked as a lighthouse. The current lighthouse was built in 1883 – it still works and is under the jurisdiction of the Australian office of Marine Safety. Until 2008, the image of the lighthouse can be seen on the coat of arms of the University of Maquire.

In July 1816 the Governor of the colony of New South Wales Lachlan Macair laid the first stone in the Foundation of the lighthouse, which was called the Tower of Maquire. It was designed by Francis Greenway, the famous exiled architect, and built of friable Sandstone. The first light was lit on the beacon November 30, 1818.

Friable Sandstone was short-lived, and in 1823, the structure began to crumble. To prevent the destruction of the lighthouse, it was sealed by a huge steel hoops. In 1881 in 4 metres from the old lighthouse construction began on the new, who earned in two years. The new building, designed by James Barnet, fully repeated appearance of its predecessor, but it was built of sterner stuff. Light camera the lighthouse became larger, allowing the use of larger and more modern equipment. Every minute on the lighthouse at eight seconds flashed a white light, visible at a distance of 46 km In good weather, the lighthouse was working with a gas burner, in a poor electricity was used. One of those generators, switchboard and one arc lamp are still in the building of the lighthouse.

Only in 1976 the lighthouse Maqueira was fully automated, and the last staff left it in 1989. Next to the lighthouse are two buildings – the house of the chief of the lighthouse, built in the 1840s, and a house of his assistant, built in 1881. Interestingly, in 2004, the house of the chief of the lighthouse was put up for sale for 1, 95 million Australian dollars.