NGA number 113-24340 Year first constructed 1910 | Opened 1910 | |
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Location southwest of Nouadhibou, Mauritania
near the border with the
Western Sahara | ||
The Cap Blanc Lighthouse (also known as the Ras Nouadhibou Lighthouse) is an active lighthouse located on Ras Nouadhibou in Mauritania. Constructed in 1910, it is today located only a few feet from Mauritania's border with Western Sahara (that portion of Western Sahara along with La Güera are occupied by Mauritania). In recent years the lighthouse has been incorporated as the rear range light of a pair of leading lights. A modern fiberglass light structure forming the front of the range. The lighthouse serves as a landfall light for the port of Nouadhibou.
A few kilometers northeast in Cansado, Nouadhibou is Pointe de Cansado (or as Pointe-de-Cansado) lighthouse, built about three years later in 1913.
They form one of the only lighthouses in Northwestern Mauritania, the other is in Nouakchott and forms the only three on the east of Ras Nouadhibou Peninsula, the other being Pointe Chacal which is located near the city of Nouadhibou and its port.