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British Columbia History Along the Highways & Waterways: A Traveler's Guide to the Fascinating Facts, Intriguing Incidents and Lively Legends of Vancouver Island & the British Columbia Coast. Red Deer, Alberta: Red Deer College Press. pp. 100– 101. ISBN 0-88995-173-X. Twenty-Five Years of Newcastle Island. Nanaimo Visitor Information Centre.
Entrance Island, off the northeast tip of Gabriola Island Nanaimo BC 49°12′32″N 123°48′37″W / 49.2088°N 123.8103°W / 49.2088; -123.8103 ( Entrance Island Lighthouse
It is there to mark the northbound entrance to Sarah Passage and is situated on the west side of Sarah Island. The light itself is a tower, square pyramidal in shape and made of steel. The tower is white and the square base is red. This is a staffed light consisting of a number of structures and a weather station. Brockton Point Lighthouse
Whaleback Light is a historic lighthouse marking the mouth of the Piscataqua River in Kittery, Maine. It is located on a rocky outcrop offshore southwest of Fort Foster and south of Wood Island in Kittery. The present tower was built in 1872. [2] [3] [4] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [1]
Four sites at the heart of CFB Esquimalt: Her Majesty's Canadian (HMC) Dockyard, the former Royal Navy Hospital, the Veterans’ Cemetery and the Cole Island Magazine; illustrative of years of naval history, from the era of the British Royal Navy to the modern Royal Canadian Navy: Estate of the Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia [33]
In 1851, twenty years after the establishment of Whaleback Lighthouse, the tower was shortened to 55 feet (17 m). Three years later, in 1854, the tower was fitted with a Fourth (4th) Order Fresnel lens. In 1878, a new 48-foot (15 m) cast-iron, brick-lined lighthouse tower was erected on the same foundation as the 1804 tower.