Montauk Point Lighthouse
Montauk Point Lighthouse | | Location: | Montauk Point, Suffolk County, New York | Coordinates
WGS-84 (GPS) | 41°4′15.5″N, 71°51′25.4″W | | Foundation: | 13 ft deep and 9 ft thick, Natural, Emplaced, built in 1796 | | Construction: | Sandstone | | Year first lit: | 1797 | | Deactivated: | Active | | Automated: | 1987 | | Tower shape: | Octagonal pyramidal | | Height: | 110.5 ft structure, 168 ft above water | | Original lens: | 13 whale oil lamps (1797), Fresnel lens replaced by VRB-25 aerobeacon (current) | | Range: | 18 nm | | Characteristic: | Flashing White 5 seconds. Tower painted white with a broad brown band midway, lantern black. Fog horn (2 s blast every 15 s) | The Montauk Point Lighthouse is in Montauk Point State Park, which is located in the village of Montauk at the eastern tip of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York. Montauk Point is the easternmost extremity of the South Fork of Long Island, and also of New York State. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (900x603, 157 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Montauk Point State Park Montauk Point Lighthouse Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital...
Montauk Point State Park is located at the eastern tip of Long Island, New York in Suffolk County. ...
Suffolk County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. ...
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A light characteristic is a coded description displayed on a nautical chart under the chart symbol for a lighthouse, lightvessel or sea mark with a light on it, to indicate how that light is recognised visually and audibally. ...
Flashing Light is a rhythmic light in which the total duration of the light in each period is clearly shorter than the total duration of the darkness and in which the flashes of light are all of equal duration. ...
Montauk Point State Park is located at the eastern tip of Long Island, New York in Suffolk County. ...
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It is listed as Montauk Point Light, number 660, in the USCG light lists.
History
 An image of the Montauk Point Lighthouse graces the highway signs for all of Long Island's state parkways. Construction on the lighthouse was authorized by the Second United States Congress, under President George Washington in 1792. Construction began on June 7, 1796, and was completed on November 5, 1796. The lighthouse and adjacent Camp Hero were heavily fortified with huge guns during World War I and World War II. Those gun emplacements and concrete observation bunkers (which are also at nearby Shadmoor State Park) are still visible. Image File history File links Northern_Pkwy_Shield. ...
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Camp Hero (AKA Fort Hero) was a military base at Montauk Point on the eastern tip of Long Island, New York. ...
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Shadmoor State Park is a state park located in Suffolk County, New York in the USA. The park is in the East Hampton (town), New York on the South Fork of Long Island. ...
It was the first lighthouse in New York State, and is the fourth-oldest active lighthouse in the United States. The tower is 110' 6" high. The current light, equivalent to 2,500,000 candle power, flashes every 5 seconds and can be seen a distance of 18 nautical miles[1]. The candela (symbol: cd) is the SI base unit of luminous intensity (that is, power emitted by a light source in a particular direction, with wavelengths weighted by the luminosity function, a standardized model of the sensitivity of the human eye). ...
The tower was originally all white. Its single brown stripe was added in 1900.
During World War II, a concrete fire / submarine observation tower was built just to the east of the tower. If an enemy ship was spotted, the guns at adjoining Fort Hero were to be called into action. The observation tower still remains.
The United States Coast Guard considered tearing down the lighthouse in 1967 and replacing it with a steel tower further from the edge of the bluff. When the tower was built on Turtle Hill it was 300 feet from the edge of the cliff. It is now 100 feet away from the edge. After World War II the United States Army Corps of Engineers built a seawall at its base, but the erosion continued. In the wake of protests over the announced dismantling of the tower, Giorgina Reid a textile designer who had saved her Rocky Point, New York cottage from collapse by building a simple set of terraces in the gullies of the bluff, proposed to do the same at Montauk. Reid's concept Reed-Trench Terracing called for building the terrace platforms made of various beach debris -- notably reeds. The practice (along with further strengthening of the rocks at the bluff toe) has appeared to have stemmed the erosion. She patented the process and wrote an article about it titled How to Hold up a Bank[2]. The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is a branch of the United States armed forces involved in maritime law enforcement, mariner assistance, search and rescue, and national defense, among other duties of coast guards elsewhere. ...
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Rocky Point is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in Suffolk County, New York on the North Shore of Long Island. ...
It was reported in November 2006 that the United States Army Corps of Engineers is planning to build a seawall to solve the continuing erosion problem. This plan has been opposed by a local surfing group which contends that a seawall would ruin the nearby world-renowned surf break, and propose moving the lighthouse back from the shore, as was done with the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse.[3] There are also environmental concerns about whether reducing the erosion at Montauk would increase erosion at other Long Island beaches. [4] It remains to be seen whether the seawall plans will be affected by these concerns. United States Army Corps of Engineers logo The United States Army Corps of Engineers, or USACE, is made up of some 34,600 civilian and 650 military men and women. ...
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Cape Hatteras lighthouse is located on Hatteras Island in the Outer Banks of North Carolina near the town of Buxton. ...
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