Farol da Ponta das Lajes

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Farol da Ponta das Lajes
Azores Flores Lajes Lighthouse.jpg
Place: Lajes das Flores , Flores , Azores
Location: on a steep face
Geographical location: 39 ° 22 '32.2 "  N , 31 ° 10' 36.5"  W Coordinates: 39 ° 22 '32.2 "  N , 31 ° 10' 36.5"  W.
Fire carrier height : 16 m
Fire height : 99 m
Farol da Ponta das Lajes (Azores)
Farol da Ponta das Lajes
Identifier : Fl. (3) W.28s
Scope knows: 26 nm (48.2 km )
Optics: Second order Fresnel lens , 700 mm
Operating mode: electric
Function: Sea fire
Construction time: Mid-1890s to 1910
Operating time: since October 10, 1910
International ordinal number: D-2704

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The Farol da Ponta das Lajes is a lighthouse on the Ponta das Lajes in the southeast of the Azores island of Flores . It is in the urban area of Lajes das Flores . The lighthouse is registered under the international number D-2704 and the national number 877. It irradiates a sector from 263 ° to 054 ° and has a range of 26  nautical miles .

History and architecture

The general plan for lighting the Portuguese coasts of 1883, which also took the Azores into account, provided for the construction of a lighthouse on the Ponta dos Ilhéus de Água Quente in the southwest of the island of Flores. At the suggestion of the frigate captain Xavier de Brito, however, the decision in favor of the Ponta das Lajes was made in 1894. In 1898 the buildings were largely completed. The commissioning of the lighthouse was delayed until 1910. Until then, the passage from Flores remained dangerous. In 1909 the steamship RMS Slavonia of the British Cunard Line ran with over 400 passengers on the cliffs of the Ilhéu da Baixa Rasa in the southwest of the island.

The one-story white brick building, which also houses the lighthouse keeper's apartment, has a T-shaped floor plan and is covered with red roof tiles. The metal dome of the 16 m high, square tower is also painted red. When the lighthouse went into operation on October 10, 1910, the light produced by an oil lamp had a range of 32 nautical miles. Even then, he sent out three white flashes of light in regular succession. The plant was modernized in 1938 and electrified in 1956. A 3000 W incandescent lamp with a range of 29 nm served as the light source . In 1984 the power was reduced to 1000 W and the range to 26 nm. It was not until 1990 that the lighthouse was connected to the public power grid .

See also

Web links

Commons : Farol da Ponta das Lajes  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 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, 2014, p. 407
  2. ↑ Faróis de Portugal on the website of the Associação Nacional de Cruzeiros, accessed on September 3, 2019 (Portuguese).
  3. ↑ Farol da Ponta das Lajes ( Memento from August 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), Faróis de Portugal (Portuguese)
  4. ↑ Susana Garcia: O Farol das Lajes das Flores fez 100 Anos . In Tribuna das Ilhas , October 22, 2010 (Portuguese)
  5. ↑ Slavonia on reef; passengers saved . In: New York Times , June 12, 1909 (English)
  6. ↑ Farol da Ponta das Lajes on the website of the Portuguese Information System for Architectural Heritage (Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico, SIPA), accessed on March 18, 2014