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Cape Point in the left foreground, with the Cape of Good Hope almost right behind and some 2.3 km away Looking from behind the old lighthouse (at top left) to the new lighthouse (a sunlit speck of white very near the point). The lighthouses are 700 metres apart, and the new lighthouse 162 metres lower in altitude so as to remain visible during ...
Cape Scott Provincial Park: 1981 The light is a square skeletal structure. It is made of steel and has a red painted lantern and a gallery. The focal plane is 70 metres (229 feet) and flashes white every 10 seconds. The site consists of a number of red-roofed buildings. Carmanah Point Light Station
The Flying Dutchman Funicular, also known as the Cape Point Funicular, is a funicular railway located at Cape Point, near the Cape of Good Hope in the Western Cape province of South Africa. The line runs from a lower station at the Cape Point car park, up an incline through dense fynbos to the upper lighthouse.
Map of the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Agulhas, the southernmost point of Africa. The Cape of Good Hope is at the southern tip of the Cape Peninsula, about 2.3 kilometers (1.4 mi) west and a little south of Cape Point on the south-east corner. Cape Town is about 50 kilometers to the north of the Cape, in Table Bay at the north end of the peninsula.
Tibbetts Point Lighthouse. The Tibbetts Point Lighthouse is located in Cape Vincent, New York. The land upon which the lighthouse stands is a part of a 600-acre (243 ha) grant of land to Captain John Tibbetts of Troy, New York. [2] The lighthouse is a circular tower that stands 69 feet (21 m) above the water The lighthouse was constructed in 1854.
The Cape Lookout Lighthouse is the only such structure in the United States to bear the checkered daymark, intended not only for differentiation between similar light towers, but also to show direction. The center of the black diamonds points in a north-south direction, while the center of the white diamonds points east-west. [3]
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The lighthouse was a 43-foot (13 m) iron tower, sixteen-sided and double balconied, a twin to the lighthouse at Point Reyes but for the roof shape. [5] At 422 feet (129 m), the height of the light exceeded the 420 feet (128.0 m) Makapuu Point Light, making it the highest focal plane of any lighthouse in the United States. [6]