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Managing Organization:
Canadian Coast Guard
Notes:
This lighthouse has been rebuilt and moved several times.
Tower Height: 85
Height of Focal Plane: 105
Characteristic and Range: Flashing white every 15 seconds, visible for 23 nautical miles; fixed red light on each corner of tower.
Description of Tower: White, square, skeleton tower, pyramidal at the bottom, with two red and white rectangular daymarks.
This light is operational
Earlier Towers?
1873: 98-foot white octagonal wooden tower. 1888: 97-foot white octagonal concrete tower with buttresses. 1917: 107-foot square pyramidal skeletal tower. 1951: Square skeleton tower with red and white horizontal daymark , focal plane 90 feet.
Date Established: 1873
Date Present Tower Built: 1980s
Date Automated: c. 1960s
Current Use: Active aid to navigation.
Open To Public? No.
Directions:
Written permission from the Canadian Coast Guard is needed to visit Sable Island.
Keepers: James Horn (c. 1934)
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