Farol do Albarnaz

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Farol do Albarnaz
Farol do Albarnaz.jpg
Place: Ponta do Albarnaz, Flores , Azores
Location: at the end of a headland
Geographical location: 39 ° 31 '11.8 "  N , 31 ° 14' 9.5"  W Coordinates: 39 ° 31 '11.8 "  N , 31 ° 14' 9.5"  W.
Fire carrier height : 15 m
Fire height : 104 m
Farol do Albarnaz (Azores)
Farol do Albarnaz
Identifier : Fl.W.5s
Scope knows: 22 nm (40.7 km )
Optics: Third order Fresnel lens , 500 mm
Operating mode: electric, 1000 W
Function: Sea fire
Construction time: 1922 to 1924
Operating time: since January 28, 1925
International ordinal number: D-2708

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The Farol do Albarnaz is a lighthouse on Cape Ponta do Albarnaz in the northwest of the Azores island of Flores . It is in the municipality of Ponta Delgada . The lighthouse is registered under the international number D-2708 and the national number 878. It irradiates a sector from 035 ° to 258 ° - with the exception of the sector 204 ° to 214 °, which is covered by the neighboring island of Corvo - and has a range of 22  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 fourth order lighthouse in Ponta Delgada in the north of the island of Flores. Due to the importance of the western group of the Azores at the intersection of important transatlantic shipping routes, the construction of a lighthouse with hyperradial Fresnel optics was discussed in 1902, but ultimately rejected. The realization of the plans only started in 1922 with the acquisition of 5525 m² of land on Cape do Albarnaz. On January 28, 1925, the lighthouse - now of the third order - was put into operation. It was the second on the island of Flores after the Farol da Ponta das Lajes , which was already in operation in 1910.

The 15-meter-high, round tower is - as is common with Portuguese lighthouses of that time - connected to a one-story building that serves as an apartment for the lighthouse keeper and his family and also contains storage rooms. The metal dome of the tower is painted red. When the lighthouse started operating in 1925, the light produced by an oil lamp had a range of 26 nautical miles. The lighting system was electrified in 1956. A 3000 W incandescent lamp now served as the light source . In 1983 the power was reduced to 1000 W and the range to 22 nm. The lighthouse is not connected to the public electricity network or the drinking water supply.

  • The lighthouse

  • The lighthouse on Cape Ponta do Albarnaz

  • Ponta do Albarnaz
    (in the foreground the island of Ilhéu de Maria Vaz , on the right in the background Corvo)

See also

Web links

Commons : Farol do Albarnaz  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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. 405 (English )
  2. ↑ Faróis de Portugal on the website of the Associação Nacional de Cruzeiros, accessed on March 19, 2014 (Portuguese)
  3. ↑ a b Acores: Albarnaz , lighthouses of the European Union
  4. ↑ a b Farol do Albarnaz ( Memento from August 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), Faróis de Portugal (Portuguese)
  5. ↑ Farol do Albarnaz on the website of the Portuguese Information System for Architectural Heritage (Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico, SIPA), accessed on March 19, 2014 (Portuguese)