Navassa Island Light

Navassa Island Light
Navassa Island Light
NavassaLighthouse.jpg
1999
Location The Windward Passage
Caribbean Sea
Coordinates 18°24′1″N 75°0′39″W / 18.40028°N 75.01083°W / 18.40028; -75.01083Coordinates: 18°24′1″N 75°0′39″W / 18.40028°N 75.01083°W / 18.40028; -75.01083
Year first constructed 1916
Year first lit 1917
Automated 1929
Deactivated 1996
Foundation Stone
Construction Concrete
Tower shape Conical with buttresses
Markings / pattern Tower: unpainted
lantern: black
Height 162 feet (49 m)
Focal height 395 feet (120 m)
Original lens 2nd order Fresnel lens
Admiralty number formerly J5362
ARLHS number NAV-001

[1][2][3]

Navassa Island Light is a deactivated lighthouse on Navassa Island, which lies at the south end of the Windward Passage between the island of Santo Domingo 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 US lights.

References

  1. ^ "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: West Indies / Virgin Islands". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. http://www.uscg.mil/history/weblighthouses/LHAWI.asp. 
  2. ^ Rowlett, Russ. "Navassa Island Lighthouse". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/nvi.htm. 
  3. ^ a b "Navassa Island". U.S. Geologic Survey. http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/navassa/. 

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