Faro Primero de Mayo
| Faro Primero de Mayo | ||
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| Place: | Lambda Island , Antarctica | |
| Location: | Southern ocean | |
| Geographical location: | 64 ° 17 ′ 58 ″ S , 62 ° 58 ′ 8 ″ W | |
| Fire carrier height : | 11 m | |
| Fire height : | 27 m | |
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| Identifier : | Fl.W.8s | |
| Scope knows: | 4.9 nm (9.1 km ) | |
| Operating mode: | electric (battery) | |
| Construction time: | 1942 | |
| Operating time: | since March 1, 1942 | |
The Faro Primero de Mayo is an Argentine lighthouse in the Antarctic . It was built in 1942 on the Lambda Island in the Palmer Archipelago off the northwest coast of the Antarctic Peninsula .
History and architecture
In 1942 Argentina undertook its first Antarctic expedition. The 1888 on the Kiel shipyard of Georg Howaldt built steamship ARA Primero de Mayo , a transport ship of the Argentine Navy , sailed under the command of Captain Alberto José Oddera (1900-1965) to the South Shetland Islands , the Melchior and the Argentine Islands . These were formally taken into possession and have since formed the core of the Antarctic territory claimed by Argentina . In February the Faro Primero de Mayo was built on the Eastern Cape of the Lambda Island, which the Argentines renamed isla 1º de Mayo . It was also named after the expedition ship and put into operation on March 1, 1942.
The lighthouse is an eleven meter high red iron structure in the shape of a truncated pyramid . In its second segment there is an orange painted storage container. In the Antarctic summer 2001/2002, acetylene was switched to electrical operation with a luminous intensity of 75 cd . A dry battery is used , which is changed every two years. The identifier of the Faro Primero de Mayo is a white flash with a period of eight seconds.
At the request of Argentina, the lighthouse was placed under the protection of the Antarctic Treaty as a Historic Site and Monument HSM-29 in 1972 .
Web links
- Faro 1 ° de Mayo ( Memento of December 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Servicio de Hidrografía Naval, Buenos Aires (Spanish, with photo)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Benicio Oscar Ahumada: Transports ARA “Primero de Mayo”. Su historia y aporte a la soberanía antártica argentina on the website of the Histarmar Foundation, October 2013, accessed on April 15, 2017 (Spanish)
- ↑ Recommendation ATCM VII-9 (Wellington, 1972) on the website of the Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty (English)