Faro di Punta Carena
| Faro di Punta Carena | ||
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| Place: | Anacapri , Capri Island , Italy | |
| Location: | on a promontory | |
| Geographical location: | 40 ° 32 '10.5 " N , 14 ° 11' 55.2" E | |
| Fire carrier height : | 28 m | |
| Fire height : | 73 m | |
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| Identifier : | Fl.W.3s | |
| Scope knows: | 25 nm (46.3 km ) | |
| Optics: | 3rd order rotating optics | |
| Operating mode: | electric | |
| Function: | Sea fire | |
| Construction time: | 1867 | |
| International ordinal number: | E 1706 | |
The Faro di Punta Carena is a lighthouse on the Punta Carena, the southwestern cape of the island of Capri belonging to the municipality of Anacapri . It is registered under the international number E 1706 and the national number EF 2612. The lighthouse illuminates the sector from 265 ° to 175 ° and has a range of 25 nautical miles.
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Construction of the lighthouse began in 1862 according to plans that had been drawn up before the Italian unification. It started work in 1867 and was modernized in 1940.
The lighthouse stands 2.5 kilometers southwest of the center of Anacapri on a 50 m high promontory in front of an impressive rock backdrop. The octagonal tower with gallery and lantern rises 28 meters high from a two-story red house made of massive blocks of tufa , which also houses the lighthouse keeper's apartment . The house has a rectangular floor plan and a patio roof with a white ledge. A spiral staircase with 132 steps leads inside the white tower with vertical red stripes up to the height of the gallery, which is entered through an iron door. The round lantern with a diameter of 3 m has a silver-gray metal roof.
The Faro di Punta Carena has a rotating 3rd order Fresnel optic ( focal length 500 mm) with a 1000 W incandescent lamp as a light source. The lighthouse sends out a 0.2 second long flash of white light every three seconds.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Isola di Capri, Punta Carena, n ° 2612 EF , Marina militare, Ministero della Difesa (Italian), accessed on June 13, 2018
- ^ List of Lights, Radio Aids and Fog Signals. Pub. 113: The West Coasts of Europe and Africa, The Mediterranian Sea, Black Sea and Azovskoye More (Sea of Azov) (PDF; 3.3 MB), National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Springfield, Virginia, 2016, p. 355 (English ).
- ^ Russ Rowlett: Lighthouses of Italy: Lazio and Campania ( English ) In: The Lighthouse Directory . University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . Retrieved June 12, 2018.
- ↑ a b Punta Carena, Island of Capri, Italy on Cyberlights Lighthouses, May 2001, accessed on June 13, 2018 (English)