Robbins Reef Light, New Jersey

Robbins Reef Light Station
Location:	Bayonne, New Jersey
Coordinates WGS-84 (GPS)	40.6574° N 74.0656° W
Foundation:	Granite block
Construction:	Brick / Cast iron
Year first lit:	1883
Deactivated:	N/A
Automated:	1966
Tower shape:	Conical
Height:	46 feet
Original lens:	Fourth order Fresnel lens

The Robbins Reef Light Station is a lighthouse located off Bayonne, New Jersey along the west side of Main Channel, Upper New York Bay. The tower and integral keepers quarters were built in 1883. It replaced an octagonal granite tower built in 1839. The U.S. Coast Guard owns and operates the light station. Also called Kate's Light for Kate Walker who "manned" the station alone from the death of her husband Jacob in 1886 until 1919. She rowed her children to Staten Island for school. Seal of Bayonne Bayonne is a city in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... GPS satellite in orbit The Global Positioning System (GPS), is the only fully-functional satellite navigation system. ... Fresnel Lens displayed in the Musée national de la marine in Paris, France A Fresnel lens is a type of lens invented by Augustin-Jean Fresnel (pronounced fre-NELL in scientific and lighting applications, although often pronounced FREZ-nell). ... The Peggys Point lighthouse in Nova Scotia, Canada An aid for navigation and pilotage at sea, a lighthouse is a tower building or framework sending out light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire. ... Seal of Bayonne Bayonne is a city in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. ... Upper New York Bay, sometimes called Upper New York Harbor or the Upper Bay, is the northern area of New York Harbor inside the Narrows. ... Staten Island, in yellow, lies to the southwest of the rest of New York City. ...

External links

• Robbins Reef Data for station ID 8530973, Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System NOAA.
• Robbins Reef Light in NPS.
• Robbins Reef Lighthouse - from Lighthousefriends.com
• Kate Walker, Keeper of Robbins Reef Light, 1894-1919, National Lighthouse Museum, 2001.
• Robbins Reef Lighthouse Lighthouses of the New Jersey Shore.
• Mind the Light, Katie: The History of Thirty-three Female lighthouse Keepers, Mary Louise Clifford and J. Candace Clifford, 2006. (ISBN 0-9636412-7-1)
• "3 Poems (from Robbins Reef Light)", Joel Lewis, Jacket Magazine 23, August, 2003.