Cape Palmas Lighthouse
Cape Palmas Lighthouse | ||
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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 | |
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Construction time: | renewed approx. 1944 | |
Operating time: | circa 1990 |
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).
Web links
Commons : Cape Palmas Lighthouse - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Latest photos on flickr.com
- Russ Rowlett: Lighthouses of Liberia ( English ) In: The Lighthouse Directory . University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . Retrieved September 17, 2011.