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Nantucket Range Rear Light
The Nantucket Harbor Range Lights
Map
LocationBrant Point, Nantucket, Massachusetts
Coordinates41°17′21″N 70°05′30″W / 41.2892°N 70.0917°W / 41.2892; -70.0917
Tower
ConstructionWood
Height46 feet (14 m)
ShapePyramidal Skeleton Tower
MarkingsKRW
Fog signalnone
Light
First lit1908 (current tower)
Focal height51 feet (16 m)
LensHigher intensity beam to seaward.
CharacteristicFixed White
Nantucket Reef Range Front Light
Old Brant Point Light is to the right
U.S. Coast Guard photo
Map
LocationBrant Point, Nantucket, Massachusetts
Coordinates41°17′21″N 70°05′30″W / 41.2892°N 70.0917°W / 41.2892; -70.0917
Tower
ConstructionWood
Height30 feet (9.1 m)
ShapePyramidal Skeleton Tower
MarkingsKRW
Fog signalnone
Light
First lit1908 (current tower)
Focal height35 feet (11 m)
LensHigher intensity beam to seaward.
CharacteristicQ W

The Nantucket Harbor Range Lights are range lights which were built in 1908 to guide vessels through the narrow channel to Nantucket Harbor. They replaced an older arrangement involving the Nantucket Beacon and the Brant Point Light which became unusable when thelaer was replaced with a new tower.

They display red and white vertical striped daymarks, type KRW, one of the twelve combinations used by the Coast Guard.

It is not known why the official USCG name of the front light, Nantucket Reef Range Front Light[2] includes the word "reef".

References

  1. ^ a b The coordinates shown are the official coordinates from the cited Light List and are shown to the precision given there.
  2. ^ a b c Light List, Volume I, Atlantic Coast, St. Croix River, Maine to Shrewsbury River, New Jersey (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard. 2009. p. 135.
  3. ^ a b "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Massachusetts". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. 2009-09-14. Archived from the original on 2017-05-01.
  4. ^ a b Rowlett, Russ (2009-09-14). "Lighthouses of the United States: Southeast Massachusetts". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.