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The Hyannis Rear Range Light, also known as the Hyannis Harbor Light, [1] was a lighthouse and, for part of its life, one of a pair of range lights adjacent to Hyannis Harbor. [2] The Range Rear tower was built in 1849 and equipped with a 5th order Fresnel lens in 1856. In 1863 the original birdcage lantern was replaced with a new cast iron one ...
The Point Gammon Light was a lighthouse that stood on its eponymous point at the south end of Great Island in West Yarmouth, Massachusetts, on the east side of Lewis Bay and the entrance to Hyannis Harbor. [1] [2] Long inactive, it was converted into an ornithological observation tower in the late 19th century. [3]
This is a list of all lighthouses in the U.S. state of Massachusetts as identified by the United States Coast Guard.Enumeration of the lighthouses in this state is complicated by the number of multiple tower stations and replacement of older towers, with the Brant Point Light station having had nine towers, two of which survive. [1]
Lewis Bay is a small natural harbor that serves as the principal harbor of Hyannis, MA. Lewis Bay is in the town of Hyannis and the town of Yarmouth, and contains the ferry docks in Hyannis in the town of Barnstable, Massachusetts. The inlet is called "Hyannis Inner Harbor" on some government charts. [2] NOAA Nautical chart 13229 shows the ...
Bishop and Clerks Light is a lighthouse located in open water on Bishop and Clerks Rocks, about two nautical miles south of Point Gammon in Hyannis, Massachusetts, United States. [3] [1] The light was established in a granite tower in 1858. [4] It was automated in 1923, deactivated five years later and demolished in 1952.
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The bay was charted by the British National Antarctic Expedition under Robert Falcon Scott, 1901–04.It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1964 for Captain Price Lewis, commanding officer of the USS Staten Island (AGB-5) during the US Navy's Operation Deep Freeze in 1959, and who in 1963 and 1964 was assistant chief of staff and ship group commander of the United States ...
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