Cape Palmas Lighthouse

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Cape Palmas Lighthouse
First lighthouse (left) and orphanage at Cape Palmas (around 1860)
First lighthouse (left) and orphanage at Cape Palmas (around 1860)
Place: Harper - Liberia
Location: Cape Palmas
Geographical location: 4 ° 21 '59 "  N , 7 ° 43' 40"  W Coordinates: 4 ° 21 '59 "  N , 7 ° 43' 40"  W.
Cape Palmas Lighthouse (Liberia)
Cape Palmas Lighthouse
Construction time: renewed approx. 1944
Operating time: circa 1990

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The Cape Palmas Lighthouse was a first time in the mid-19th century in the West African Atlantic coast at Cape Palmas in Liberia erected lighthouse . Its location is on the west side of the narrow rocky headland protruding into the sea .

The current lighthouse and its outbuildings were built in the 1940s when the United States built ports, airfields and roads in Liberia for military purposes. It is a slender tower made of concrete, about 22 meters high. The spiral staircase inserted inside is used for the ascent . The projecting, open platform could be used as a waiting room during the day . In the center of the platform was the beacon inserted in a glazed housing .

Other well-known lighthouses of the Liberian coast were

  • Grand Bassa Point (from 1906)
  • Buchanan North Breakwater
  • South Point (Greenville)

literature

  • National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (Ed.): NGA Sailing Directions-Enroute: 2008 West Coast of Europe and Northwest Africa . Pub. 143. Annapolis MD 2008, ISBN 1-57785-885-9 , Sierra Leone and Liberia - The Banana Islands to Cape Palmas, pp. 261–262 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).

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