Construction Wood Characteristic Fixed White Height 14 m | Markings / pattern KRW Focal height 16 m Year first lit 1908 (current tower) | |
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Location Brant Point, Nantucket, Massachusetts Tower shape Pyramidal Skeleton Tower Original lens Higher intensity beam to seaward. | ||
The Nantucket Harbor Range Lights are range lights that were built in 1908 to guide vessels through the narrow channel to Nantucket Harbor. They replaced an older arrangement involving the Nantucket Beacon and the Brant Point Light, which became unusable when the latter was replaced with a new tower.
They display red and white vertical striped daymarks, type KRW, one of the twelve combinations used by the Coast Guard.
It is not known why the official USCG name of the front light, Nantucket Reef Range Front Light includes the word "reef".
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