Súgandisey lighthouse
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| Place: | Stykkishólmur , Iceland | |
| Location: | on the rocky island of Súgandisey in front of the harbor | |
| Geographical location: | 65 ° 4 '49 " N , 22 ° 43' 24" W | |
| Fire carrier height : | 3.5 m | |
| Fire height : | 31 m | |
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| Identifier : | Fl.WRG.3s | |
| Scope knows: | 6 nm (11.1 km ) | |
| Scope green: | 4 nm (7.4 km ) | |
| Scope red: | 4 nm (7.4 km ) | |
| Operating time: | since 1948 | |
| International ordinal number: | L 4554 | |
The Súgandisey lighthouse stands on the highest point of the basalt island of Súgandisey , which is in front of the port of Stykkishólmur on the Snæfellsnes peninsula in western Iceland and protects it. He supports the navigation in Breiðafjörður .
The steel tower, which is only 3.5 m high, is painted red with the exception of the yellow base. It was built in 1948 and received the lantern of the old Gróttuviti lighthouse in the municipality of Seltjarnarnes , which had been replaced by a new building the year before.
The identifier is a half-second lightning bolt every three seconds. The sectors are: green (0 ° to 107 °), white (107 ° to 110 °), red (110 ° to 157 °) and white (157 ° to 160 °). The range is six nautical miles for the white and four nautical miles for the colored light.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c List of Lights, Radio Aids and Fog Signals. Pub. 115 - Norway, Iceland and Arctic Ocean (PDF; 2.66 MB), National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Springfield, Virginia, 2016, p. 283 (English)
- ↑ a b Lighthouse Explorer on the Lighthouse Digest Magazine website , accessed on August 3, 2014 (English)
- ↑ History of the island of Grótta on the website of the municipality of Seltjarnarnes , accessed on February 15, 2016 (Icelandic)
- ↑ Sugandisey light (Stykkishólmur - Breiðaförður bay) ( Memento from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on Phares du Monde (English)
