Ákra Síderos lighthouse
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| Place: | Corfu Town , Corfu , Greece | |
| Location: | on the Old Fortress of Corfu Town | |
| Geographical location: | 39 ° 37 '24.4 " N , 19 ° 55' 44.8" E | |
| Fire carrier height : | 8 m | |
| Fire height : | 78 m | |
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| Identifier : | Fl. (2) W.6s | |
| Scope knows: | 13 nm (24.1 km ) | |
| Construction time: | 1828 | |
| International ordinal number: | E 3756 | |
The Ákra Síderos lighthouse (also Akra Sidhero , Cape Sidero ) stands on the old fortress in Corfu , the capital of the Greek island of the same name, built by the Venetians in the 16th century . The oldest Greek lighthouse still in operation illuminates a sector from 112 ° 30 'to 045 ° and has a range of 13 nautical miles .
History and structure
The eight meter high lighthouse was built by the British in 1828 on the land tower of the Old Fortress to secure the entrance to the main port of their protectorate of the Ionian Islands . The round tower made of natural stone is unplastered. The lantern is above a gallery and under a green painted roof. The lighthouse keeper's house hugs the base of the tower.
The simple solid light of 1828 was soon replaced by a fourth order Fresnel lens from the Paris-based company Sautter, Lemonier et Cie. replaced. Today the tower has a modern beacon with a drum lens.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d 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. 252
- ↑ Elinor De Wire, Dolores Reyes-Pergioudakis: The Lighthouses of Greece . Pineapple Press Inc., 2010, ISBN 978-1-56164-452-0 , pp. 114 ( limited preview in Google Book search).