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Waglan Island is a member of the Po Toi group of islands in Hong Kong. Wagan Lighthouse, a declared monument dating to 1893 stands there. Since 1989 Wagan lighthouse is automated and Wagan Island is uninhabited. The island also hosts a ground of meteorological observation and recording for the Hong Kong Observatory. [1]
Tinicum Island Rear Range Light: Paulsboro: 1880 1933 Active DCB-24: 112 ft (34 m) 85 ft (26 m) Tucker's Beach Light Tuckerton: N/A 1848 (Original) 1980s (Replica) Never 1927 (Destroyed) LED (Non-navigational replica) Unknown Unknown Waackaack Rear Range Light: Keansburg
The islands are notable for interesting rock formations and open-air seafood restaurants. Po Toi Island has a "haunted house", and some rock carvings supposed to be the epitaph of an emperor who died on or near Po Toi. [citation needed] Waglan Island has one of the five surviving pre-war lighthouses in Hong Kong. [2]
The lighthouse is one of five pre-war surviving lighthouses in Hong Kong; it is also the oldest lighthouse in Hong Kong. Two of the five lighthouses are on Green Island while the other three are at Cape D'Aguilar, Waglan Island and Tang Lung Chau respectively. Waglan Lighthouse and Tang Lung Chau Lighthouse are also declared monuments of Hong ...
Published in 1918, the work provides a definitive history up to that time of the communities on the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens County, New York City and the villages and hamlets which comprise what is known today as the Five Towns of Nassau County, Long Island, New York, namely Inwood, Lawrence, Cedarhurst, Woodmere and Hewlett. [1] [2] [3]
The Rockaway Peninsula, commonly referred to as The Rockaways or Rockaway, is a peninsula at the southern edge of the New York City borough of Queens on Long Island, New York. Relatively isolated from Manhattan and other more urban parts of the city, Rockaway became a popular summer retreat in the 1830s. It has since become a mixture of lower ...
It became part of the Maurice River Lighthouse and East Point Archeological District on October 30, 2015. [2] The lighthouse was fully restored in 2017. The lighthouse is an active navigational aid and currently under the stewardship of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection .
Great Beds Light is a sparkplug lighthouse in Raritan Bay, about 1 mile (1.6 km) from South Amboy of Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.Over the years the lighthouse has become the symbol for the city of South Amboy.