Year first lit 1907 (current) Height 29 m Range 44,448 m | Construction concrete tower Opened 1907 Focal height 52 m Material Concrete | |
 | ||
Location Avalon PeninsulaNewfoundland and LabradorCanada Year first constructed Tower shape cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern Markings / pattern white tower, red lantern Address Division No. 1, Subd. V, NL A0A 4B0, Canada Similar Cape Pine Light, Point Amour Lighthouse, Point Riche Lighthouse, Cape Bonavista Light, Fort Amherst - St John's | ||
Cape race lighthouse atop view
Six string nation elements cape race lighthouse
HistoryEdit
In 1856, the first lighthouse was installed by the British Government's Trinity House. It was a cast iron tower with a coal oil lamp turned by clockwork. It was replaced in 1907 by a 29-metre (95 ft) tall concrete tower and a light with a massive hyperradiant Fresnel lens made by Chance Brothers in England. It had a massive optic emitting a one million candle power flash. Great landfall lights, like those at Cape Race provided the first sight of land for Atlantic or Pacific travellers. The original lighthouse was then moved to Cape North; it now stands in front of the National Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa. The light's characteristic is a single white flash every 7.5 seconds, additionally a foghorn may sound a signal of two blasts every 60 seconds.
The lighthouse was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1975.