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Alligator Reef Light is located 4 nautical miles (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) east of Indian Key, near the Matecumbe Keys of Florida in the United States, north of Alligator Reef itself. The station was established in 1873.
The Alligator Reef Light sits on Alligator Reef. A wreck traditionally considered as the remains of USS Alligator is located 200 feet southwest of the lighthouse and can be seen by snorkelers and divers year-round; however a 1996 expedition has challenged this identification, and the wreck is probably that of another 19th c. ship. [2]
The lighthouse is anchored in the coral about four miles offshore of Indian Key and is named after the USS Alligator, a Navy schooner that ran aground on the reef and sank in 1822, according to ...
Alligator Reef Light: Islamorada 1873 1963 2015 [1] (Replaced) VRB-25 ... Maritime history of Florida; Notes. A. ^ The first tower was built around 1737. Archival ...
The lighthouse is named after the USS Alligator, a Navy schooner that ran aground on the reef in 1822 and sank. Alligator and five other aging lighthouses off the Keys were important maritime ...
The lighthouse was named for the U.S. Navy Schooner Alligator that grounded on the reef in 1822. Equipment was stripped from the vessel before it was blown up to prevent it from being used by pirates.
The wreck lies 4 nautical miles (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) east of Indian Key, near the Matecumbe Keys, north of Alligator Reef itself, and is marked by the Alligator Reef Lighthouse. [23] In June 1748, the Royal Navy frigate HMS Fowey struck a reef off of Hawk Channel. She sank on 26 June.
The first two unmanned lights in the Florida Keys, the Molasses Reef Light and the Pacific Reef Light, were built as square pyramidal towers to the same plan in 1921. The Hen and Chickens Shoal Light was the smallest of these lights, and the only one built as a triangular pyramidal tower.