[1] The structure is a stainless steel tower, which also serves as a daymark and carries a racon.

[2] It was named in the late 1920s by Captain John A. Edgell (RN) on the survey ship HMAS Moresby, during the Moresby survey of the Cumberland Channel inside the Great Barrier Reef.

[4] The structure, established in April 1985, is a 21 metres (69 ft) stainless steel skeletal tower with a white lantern, standing on a reinforced concrete hut, supported on four piles.

The light source is a 12 Volt 75 Watt Halogen lamp with an intensity of 104,000 cd.

[5] The racon, mounted at an elevation of 34 metres (112 ft),[8] transmits a morse code "M" (- -) for a distance of 16 nautical miles (30 km; 18 mi).