Sand Island Light (Wisconsin)
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| Location | Sand Island, Wisconsin |
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| Coordinates | 47°00′12″N 90°56′12″W / 47.00333°N 90.93667°WCoordinates: 47°00′12″N 90°56′12″W / 47.00333°N 90.93667°W |
| Year first lit | 1881 |
| Automated | 1921 |
| Deactivated | 1933-1980 |
| Foundation | Stone |
| Construction | Sandstone |
| Tower shape | Octagonal |
| Height | Tower - 42 feet (13 m) |
| Focal height | Focal plane - 56 feet (17 m)[1] |
| Original lens | Fourth order Fresnel lens |
| Current lens | SeaLite LED Marine Lantern [2] |
| Range | 7 statute miles (11 km) |
| Characteristic | White, flashing, 6 s |
| ARLHS number | USA-722 |
| USCG number | 7-15580 |
The Sand Island Light is a lighthouse located on the northern tip of Sand Island, one of the Apostle Islands, in Lake Superior in Bayfield County, Wisconsin, near the city of Bayfield.
The Lighthouse Board chose to use a design that had been used: on McGulpin Point Light in 1868; Eagle Harbor Light in 1871; and White River Light in 1875.[3]
Currently owned by the National Park Service and part of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, part of reference number 77000145. Listed in the Library of Congress Historic American Buildings Survey, WI-313.
Attached to the lighthouse is a Norman gothic keepers quarters.
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[edit] Getting there
Most of the Apostle Islands light stations may be reached on the Apostle Islands Cruise Service[4] water taxi or by private boat during the summer. During the Annual Apostle Island Lighthouse Celebration[5] ferry tour service is available for all the lighthouses. In the tourist season, volunteer park rangers are on the many of the islands to greet visitors.[6]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Pepper, Terry. "Seeing the Light: Lighthouses on the western Great Lakes". http://www.terrypepper.com/lights/index.htm.
- ^ Draft Historic Structure Report/Cultural Landscape Report, Sand Island Light Station US National Park Service, Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, 2011.
- ^ Terry Pepper, Seeing the Light, Sand Island Light.
- ^ Apostle Islands Cruise Service.
- ^ Apostle Island Lighthouse Celebration.
- ^ Wobser, David, La Pointe Light, boatnerd.com Originally in Great Laker Magazine.
[edit] Further reading
- Havighurst, Walter (1943) The Long Ships Passing: The Story of the Great Lakes, Macmillan Publishers.
- Oleszewski, Wes, Great Lakes Lighthouses, American and Canadian: A Comprehensive Directory/Guide to Great Lakes Lighthouses, (Gwinn, Michigan: Avery Color Studios, Inc., 1998) ISBN 0-932212-98-0.
- Pepper, Terry. "Seeing the Light: Lighthouses on the western Great Lakes". http://www.terrypepper.com/lights/index.htm.
- Wright, Larry and Wright, Patricia, Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia Hardback (Erin: Boston Mills Press, 2006) ISBN 1-55046-399-3.
[edit] External links
- Aerial photos of Sand Island Light, Marina.com.
- Library of Congress Historic American Buildings Survey Survey number HABS WI-313
- Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of the United States: Eastern Wisconsin". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/wi.htm.
- Lighthouse tour preview: September, 2005 VIP photo.
- Lighthouse friends Sand Island article.
- Sand Island Light Station, NPS.
- National Park Service, Inventory of Historic Light Stations - Wisconsin, Sand Island Light.
- Terry Pepper, Seeing the Light, Sand Island Light.
- (PDF) Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes. Light List. United States Coast Guard. 2003. http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/pdf/lightLists/LightList%20V7.pdf.
- "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Wisconsin". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. http://www.uscg.mil/history/weblighthouses/LHWI.asp.
- Wobser, David, Sand Island Lights, boatnerd.com. originally in Great Laker Magazine.
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