Great Basses Reef Lighthouse
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 Sri Lanka , Hambantota District
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| Location: | 6.5 nautical miles off the coast | |
| Geographical location: | 6 ° 10 '55.4 " N , 81 ° 28' 53" E | |
| Fire carrier height : | 121 ft (36.9 m ) | |
| Fire height : | 112 ft (34.1 m ) | |
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| Identifier : | Fl.W.15s | |
| Scope knows: | 25 nm (46.3 km ) | |
| Optics: | Fresnel lens | |
| Construction time: | 1873 | |
| International ordinal number: | F 0840 | |
Great Basses Reef Lighthouse is a lighthouse ( English Lighthouse ) before the Southern Province of Sri Lanka .
General
With the opening of the Suez Canal , what was then British Ceylon was located in the middle of the international sea route between Europe and the Far East from 1869 . Since the shallow water depths of the Adams Bridge made the passage of the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka impossible for shipping , the island had to be bypassed to the south. For this reason, three lighthouses were commissioned by the Imperial Lighthouse Service there in the 1870s : Great Basses Reef Lighthouse, Little Basses Reef Lighthouse and, most recently, Dondra Head Lighthouse . The three towers were designed by James Nicholas Douglass and erected under the supervision of his brother William Douglass.
description
The nearly 37 meters tall and tapered round tower is at Great bass Reef, a Felsriff ( English Reef ), 6.5 nautical miles off the southeast coast of the district Hambantota . The granite for the offshore structure completed in 1873 comes from Scotland and England .
The beacon has a fire height of 34 m , and shows an identifier of a white flash with a recovery of 15 seconds (Fl.W.15s). Due to its importance, the tower is also equipped with a radar beacon .
The damage caused by the tsunami , triggered by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami , were supported by the Trinity House and Northern Lighthouse Board repaired. The beacon has been functional again since 2007.
Numerous wrecks in this sea area are a popular destination for wreck diving . Arthur C. Clarke published the results of his diving expeditions in 1961 in The Treasure of the Reef ( German Die Schätze der Riffs ).
See also
Web links
- Great Basses & Little Basses Reef lighthouses. Amazing Lanka(English).
- Russ Rowlett: Lighthouses of Sri Lanka ( English ) In: The Lighthouse Directory . University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . Retrieved November 20, 2019.
- Great Basses Light. Lighthouse Digest, accessed November 20, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of Lights (Pub. 112)