Agios Nikolaos lighthouse (Rhodes)
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| Place: | Rhodes Town , Rhodes | |
| Location: | at the Saint Nicholas Fortress at Mandraki Harbor in Rhodes City | |
| Geographical location: | 36 ° 27 '4.2 " N , 28 ° 13' 40.9" E | |
| Fire carrier height : | 6 m | |
| Fire height : | 24 m | |
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| Identifier : | Fl. (2) W.12s | |
| Scope knows: | 11 nm (20.4 km ) | |
| Construction time: | 1863 | |
| International ordinal number: | E 4744 | |
The lighthouse Agios Nikolaos is located on the pier head at the Mandraki port of the city of Rhodes on the island of the same name . It was built in 1863 on the upper platform of the tower of the 15th-century Saint Nicholas Fortress and restored in 2007.
description
The brick white tower at the end of the eastern pier of Mandraki Harbor is six meters high. Above the ground floor with the entrance door, the round tower tapers in one step. There is a window below the gallery. Due to its location on the platform of the tower of the Saint Nicholas fortress, it reaches a fire height of 24 meters.
The lighthouse was built by a French company in 1863 when Rhodes was part of the Ottoman Empire . It was initially equipped with 4th order optics ( focal length 250 mm). Its white light had a range of 14 nautical miles . At the beginning of the 2000s, the lighthouse was restored and its lantern was temporarily mounted on a steel frame that also stood on the platform of the fortress tower. In 2007 he resumed his work with new optics with a focal length of 300 mm. Since then, the range of its light has been 11 nautical miles. As an identifier , it emits two white flashes of light every twelve seconds with a duration of 1.2 seconds at an interval of 3 seconds.
Web links
- Russ Rowlett: Lighthouses of Greece: Aegean Islands ( English ) In: The Lighthouse Directory . University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . Accessed May 31, 2018.
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, 2016, p. 355 (English ).
- ↑ a b c Savas Pavlidis: Lighthouse Agios Nikolaos (Rodos Isl). In: Traditional Greek Lighthouses. Retrieved May 31, 2018 .