Mount Lewis (Mount Louis) Signal Station was a Semaphore signal station on the summit of Mount Lewis, near Tinderbox overlooking the D'Entrecasteaux Channel in Tasmania. It stood on a twenty acre site 726 feet above sea level.
The Signal The semaphore was a crude system of rotating arms, one above the other and was operated by ropes. Semaphore messages were sent by raising and lowering the arms to set positions.
In 1885, the signal was described by The Mercury as "a clearing on the rounded hill top and a mournfully looking flagstaff surmounting it."Guardians of the Port, Suzanne Smythe, Forty South Publishing, 2015
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