Algoa Bay has four lighthouses. The online resource Lighthouses South Africa has the following info on them all: CAPE RECIFE (Commissioned in 1851, still operational): ‘Requests for a lighthouse at Cape Recife date back to 1811, when various harbor officials began to push for a navigational aid to safeguard the coastal trade. The issue was taken a step further in August 1827, when a petition requesting that a lighthouse be built on the western shore of Algoa Bay at public expense was … [Read more...] about Algoa Bay Lighthouses


