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Green Island (Fortune), Newfoundland and Labrador

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Characteristic
  
Fl W 10s.

Height
  
6 m

Province
  
Newfoundland and Labrador

Focal height
  
45 m

Range
  
29,632 m

Year first lit
  
1993

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Location
  
Fortune Bay Burin Peninsula Newfoundland and Labrador Canada Saint-Pierre and Miquelon France

Year first constructed
  
1908 (first) 1955 (second)

Construction
  
cast iron tower (first) skeletal tower (second and current)

Tower shape
  
cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern (first) square frustum tower (second and current)

Markings / pattern
  
red tower (first) red lantern (current)

Green Island (in French: Île verte) is a rocky island in the mouth of Fortune Bay, off the Burin Peninsula of Newfoundland. It is between the Newfoundland coast and the islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. It can be found about 10 kilometers from Langlade and St. Pierre.

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Map of Green Island, Point May, NL, Canada

In Article XIII of the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), France acknowledged British ownership of Newfoundland and its adjacent islands, of which Green Island is one. The Canadians declare that the island is part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. In the Agreement between the Government of Canada and the Government of the French Republic on Their Mutual Fishing Relations, 27 March 1972, the article 9 says: "No provision of the present Agreement shall be interpreted as prejudicing the views and future claims of either Party concerning internal waters, territorial waters or jurisdiction with respect to fisheries or the resources of ~he continental shelf, or the bilateral or multilateral agreements to which either Government is a party."

Green Island Lighhouse

The first lighthouse was built on Green Island in 1908. It was replaced in 1955 with an aluminium skeletal tower, and this was replaced with the present structure in 1993. Its light flashes every 10 seconds and is visible for 16 nautical miles (30 km). The foghorn sounds every 60 seconds as well.

Point (5) The low water mark on the west point of the south-westernmost island of the Little Green Island group. Latitude 46° 51' 36" N., Longitude 56° 05' 58" W. approximately.

References

Green Island (Fortune), Newfoundland and Labrador Wikipedia