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Due to the different locations and building materials, lighthouses face different environmental elements and therefore need to plan different disasters. [16] Lighthouses do often have well designed plans specified for the environmental risks in their area. Common risks include land erosion, landslides, hurricanes, flooding, and earthquake. [16]
The lighthouse has a neoclassical design with octagonal base, shaft and capital. It is a tapered octagonal three-story tower. [1] The tower is 10.5 metres (34 ft) high. The light has a focal plane of 24 metres (79 ft), and gives a white flash every five seconds. [7] There is a decorative vent cover above the red octagonal fiberglass lantern.
Original plans of the keeper's quarters, 1900 Cottages at Norah Head Lighthouse, view from the lighthouse Writing above door in Norah Head Lighthouse. On the ground floor there is an entrance door made of cedar set with sidelights and fanlight, [2] with an etching on the door glass saying Olim Periculum Nunc Salus, Latin for "Once Perilous, Now ...
A stone lighthouse was constructed in 1825 on shore at Thomas Point [3] by John Donahoo, Thomas Point Light.It was replaced in 1838 by another stone tower. The point was subject to continuing erosion (which would eventually bring down the lighthouse on the point in 1894), [6] and in 1873 Congress appropriated $20,000 for the construction of a screw-pile structure out in the bay, Thomas Point ...
In 1885 the Lighthouse Service made its first request to replace this lamp with a federal lighthouse, but the replacement was not constructed until 1887. The wooden A-frame house was unlike anything else in the area, and it had neither tower nor lantern room. Instead, a lamp was hung in either gable: red on one end, and white on the other.
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[1] In 2000 the light was decommissioned and leased to Turkey Point Light Station (TPLS) Inc., a non-profit organization which has taken over maintenance of the structure; the group reactivated the light as a private aid to navigation in 2002. The group additionally replaced the steel ladder in the lighthouse with a new wooden spiral staircase.
Assateague Light is the 142-foot-tall (43 m) lighthouse located on the southern end of Assateague Island off the coast of the Virginia Eastern Shore, United States.The lighthouse is located within the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge and can be accessed by road from Chincoteague Island over the Assateague Channel.