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Name: Beacon Island Light
Nearest Town or City: Ocracoke, North Carolina, United States
Location: Shell Castle Island, Pamlico Sound, just inside Ocracoke Inlet.
Notes: This light was designed as a range with the Ocracoke Channel Lightvessel.
Tower Height: 38
Height of Focal Plane: 39
Characteristic and Range: Fixed white, range 8 nautical miles (in 1857).
Description of Tower: Light on the keeper's brick dwelling.
This light is not operational
Date Established: 1853
Date Deactivated: c. 1859
Current Use: Destroyed.
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