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Battle Island Light

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Location
  
Battle Island, Ontario

Characteristic
  
Fl (3) W 24s.

Range
  
28,968 m

Automated
  
1991

Year first constructed
  
1877

Year first lit
  
1911 (current)

Height
  
13 m

Focal height
  
36 m

Province
  
Ontario

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Construction
  
wooden-frame (first) poured concrete tower (current)

Tower shape
  
tapered octagonal tower with balcony and lantern

Markings / pattern
  
white tower, red lantern

Battle Island Light is a lighthouse on the Canadian shore of Lake Superior. It is located on the westerly point of Battle Island, 28.5 miles (45.9 km) east-northeast from Lamb Island Light. It was built as a white light, visible for 18 miles (29 km) in clear weather. When built, it operated as a bright flash, four-second interval, bright flash, four-second interval, and then bright flash, 16-second interval, with a concurrent lower-strength light operating at 12-seconds constant/ 12 seconds eclipsed. Its fog horn (originally referred to as a "fog diaphone") blasted for 3½ seconds and was then silent for 26½ seconds. The lighthouse was rebuilt in 1915-16 in response to increased demand from local wood pulp carriers and commercial fishing boats.

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Battle Island Light Wikipedia