Navassa Island Light
 The light in 1999 | |
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| Location | Navassa Island Caribbean Sea |
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| Coordinates | 18°23′51″N 75°00′46″W / 18.397423°N 75.012833°W |
| Tower | |
| Constructed | 1917 |
| Foundation | stone basement |
| Construction | concrete tower |
| Automated | 1929 |
| Height | 162 feet (49 m) |
| Shape | tapered cylindrical tower with buttresses, balcony and lantern |
| Markings | white unpainted tower black lantern |
| Operator | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service |
| Light | |
| Deactivated | 1996 |
| Focal height | 395 feet (120 m) |
| Lens | 2nd order Fresnel lens |
Navassa Island Light is a deactivated lighthouse on Navassa Island, which lies in the Caribbean Sea at the south end of the Windward Passage between the islands of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) to the east and Cuba and Jamaica to the west. It is on the shortest route between the east coast of the United States and the Panama Canal. The light was built in 1917 and deactivated in 1996. The light is gradually deteriorating from lack of maintenance. The keepers' house is roofless and in ruins.[3]
The importance of the light before the advent of GPS is evident in the fact that it has the twelfth-highest tower and fourth-highest focal plane of all U.S. lights.
See also
References
- ^ "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: West Indies / Virgin Islands". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. Archived from the original on 2017-05-01.
- ^ Rowlett, Russ. "Navassa Island Lighthouse". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- ^ a b "Navassa Island". U.S. Geologic Survey.
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