List of lighthouses in Africa

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The list is a selection of lighthouses in Africa . It begins in the Mediterranean Sea and follows the African coasts clockwise to the Strait of Gibraltar . A second year of construction is given for the stations that have been replaced by a new building.

Data on the lighthouses in the Canary Islands and the Spanish exclaves Ceuta and Melilla can be found in the list of lighthouses in Spain

Surname	region	Waters	position	Year of construction (s)	Tower height	Fire height	Identifier	image
Phare Cap des Trois Fourches	Oriental	Alboran Sea	35 ° 26 '17.2 "  N , 2 ° 57' 46.9"  W.	1909	18 m	109 m	Fl (3 + 1) W.20s
Phare Ilot d'Arzew	Oran	Mediterranean Sea	35 ° 52 '25.6 "  N , 0 ° 17' 21.4"  W.	1848	12 m	19 m	Fl.R.5s
Phare Cap Ivi	Mostaganem	Mediterranean Sea	36 ° 6 '46.1 "  N , 0 ° 13' 36.7"  E	1898	18 m	118 m	Fl.W.5s
Phare Cap Cabon	Bejaia	Mediterranean Sea	36 ° 46 '33.9 "  N , 5 ° 6' 9.7"  E	1851	10 m	220 m	Fl (3) W.20s
Phare Cap Dar El Afia	Jijel	Mediterranean Sea	36 ° 49 '2.8 "  N , 5 ° 41' 24.3"  E	1871	14 m	43 m	Fl.R.5s
Phare Ilot of Sing	Skikda	Mediterranean Sea	36 ° 54 '18.3 "  N , 6 ° 53' 0.5"  E	1847	9 m	17 m	F.WG.
Sidi Bou Saïd lighthouse	Tunis	Strait of Sicily	36 ° 52 '21.4 "  N , 10 ° 20' 55.9"  E	1840	12 m	146 m	Fl.W.4s
Mahdia lighthouse	Mahdia	Mediterranean Sea	35 ° 30 '28.7 "  N , 11 ° 4' 47.1"  E	1890	15 m	26 m	Fl.R.5s
Ras Taguerness lighthouse	Djerba	Mediterranean Sea	33 ° 49 '22.1 "  N , 11 ° 2' 33.9"  E	1895	49 m	64 m	Fl.W.5s
Benghazi lighthouse	Benghazi	Great Syrte	32 ° 7 '29.7 "  N , 20 ° 3' 48.5"  E	1880/1922	22 m	41 m	Fl.W.3s
Pharos of Alexandria	al-Iskandariyya	Levant Sea	31 ° 12 '49.5 "  N , 29 ° 53' 7.9"  E	279 BC Chr.			expired
Port Sa'id old lighthouse	Bur Saʿid	Suez Canal	31 ° 15 ′ 50.8 "  N , 32 ° 18 ′ 47.8"  E	1880/1869	56 m	59 m	deleted (≈1997)
Daedalus Reef lighthouse	al-Bahr al-ahmar	Red Sea	24 ° 55 ′ 42 "  N , 35 ° 51 ′ 42"  E	1863/1931	30 m	30 m	Fl (1 + 2) W.12s
Ulenge lighthouse	tanga	Indian Ocean	5 ° 0 '16.9 "  S , 39 ° 9" 57.4 "  E	1894	26 m	28 m	deleted (2008)
Phare de Bel-Air	Reunion	Indian Ocean	20 ° 54 ′ 5.3 "  S , 55 ° 36 ′ 7.2"  E	1845	20 m	40 m	Fl (3) W.15s
Umhlanga Rocks lighthouse	KwaZulu-Natal	Indian Ocean	29 ° 43 ′ 42.6 ″  S , 31 ° 5 ′ 17.2 ″  E	1954	21 m	24 m	Fl (3) W.20s
Cape Agulhas lighthouse	Western cape	Indic ↔ Atlantic	34 ° 49 ′ 46 "  S , 20 ° 0 ′ 32.4"  E	1848	27 m	31 m	Fl.W.5s
Roman rock	Western cape	False Bay	34 ° 10 ′ 52.7 "  S , 18 ° 27 ′ 36.4"  E	1861	14 m	17 m	Fl.W.6s
Cape Point Lighthouse	Western cape	False Bay	34 ° 21 '25 "  S , 18 ° 29" 48.8 "  E	1860/1911	9 m	87 m	Fl (2 + 1) W.30s
Slangkop lighthouse	Western cape	South Atlantic	34 ° 8 ′ 55.1 ″  S , 18 ° 19 ′ 9.5 ″  E	1919	33 m	41 m	Fl (4) W.30s
Robben Island lighthouse	Western cape	South Atlantic	33 ° 48 ′ 53 "  S , 18 ° 22 ′ 26.5"  E	1865	18 m	47 m	unknown
Dassen Island lighthouse	Western cape	South Atlantic	33 ° 25 ′ 55.6 ″  S , 18 ° 5 ′ 20.2 ″  E	1893	28 m	47 m	unknown
Diaz Point lighthouse	ǁKaras	South Atlantic	26 ° 38 ′ 11.5 "  S , 15 ° 5 ′ 34.7"  E	1903/1915	28 m	53 m	Fl.W.10s
Shark Island lighthouse	ǁKaras	South Atlantic	26 ° 38 '8.4 "  S , 15 ° 9" 9.1 "  E	1903	15 m	34 m	LFl.WRG.10s
Pelican Point lighthouse	Erongo	South Atlantic	22 ° 53 ′ 31 ″  S , 14 ° 26 ′ 7.3 ″  E	1898/1915/1932	34 m	34 m	Fl (3) W.20s
Swakopmund lighthouse	Erongo	South Atlantic	22 ° 40 ′ 33.9 "  S , 14 ° 31 ′ 26.7"  E	1902	28 m	35 m	Fl (2) W.10s
Kribi lighthouse	Sud (Cameroon)	Gulf of Guinea	2 ° 56 '22.1 "  N , 9 ° 54' 13.2"  E	1906	15 m	18 m	Fl (3) W.12s
Jamestown lighthouse	Greater Accra	Gulf of Guinea	5 ° 31 '59.1 "  N , 0 ° 12' 43.7"  W.	1870 / ~ 1930	28 m	34 m	Fl (4) W.25s
Cape Palmas Lighthouse	Maryland	Atlantic Ocean	4 ° 21 '59 "  N , 7 ° 43' 40"  W.	1847 / ~ 1944	22 m	32 m	deleted
Lighthouse at Cape Mesurado	Margibi	Atlantic Ocean	6 ° 19 ′ 0 ″  N , 10 ° 49 ′ 0 ″  W.	1855 / ~ 1900	12 m	85 m	Fl.W.6s	Image wanted
Bissau Cathedral	Bissau	Geba estuary	11 ° 51 ′ 36.2 "  N , 15 ° 34 ′ 52.2"  W.	1950	unknown	36 m	LFl.G.9s
Dakar lighthouse	Dakar	North Atlantic	14 ° 43 '25.2 "  N , 17 ° 30' 6.4"  W.	1864	16 m	120 m	Fl.W.5s
Farol de D. Maria Pia	Santiago	Atlantic Ocean	14 ° 54 ′ 1.5 "  N , 23 ° 30 ′ 33"  W.	1881	21 m	25 m	Fl (2) W.6s
Donna Amélia lighthouse	Sao Vicente	Atlantic Ocean	16 ° 49 '36.1 "  N , 25 ° 5' 7.4"  W.	1894	14 m	56 m	Fl.W.5s
Ilhéu dos Pássaros lighthouse	Sao Vicente	Atlantic Ocean	16 ° 54 ′ 37.5 "  N , 25 ° 0 ′ 42.3"  W.	1882	5 m	86 m	Fl (3) W.12s
Cape Bojador lighthouse	Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra	North Atlantic	26 ° 7 '26.2 "  N , 14 ° 29' 10.4"  W.	1903	45 m	70 m	Fl (3) W.15s
El Cabiño lighthouse	Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra	North Atlantic	26 ° 25 '33.7 "  N , 14 ° 10' 48.5"  W.		32 m	37 m	Fl (3) W.12s
Phare El Hank	Casablanca Settat	North Atlantic	33 ° 36 '35.9 "  N , 7 ° 39' 17"  W.	1919	49 m	65 m	Fl (3) W.15s
Rabat lighthouse	Rabat-Salé-Zemmour-Zaer	North Atlantic	34 ° 1 '53.2 "  N , 6 ° 50' 39.9"  W.	1920	24 m	31 m	Oc (2) W.6s
Cape Spartel lighthouse	Tangier-Tetouan	North Atlantic ↔ Strait of Gibraltar	35 ° 47 '27.7 "  N , 5 ° 55' 25.4"  W.	1864	24 m	95 m	Fl (4) W.20s
Cape Malabata lighthouse	Tangier-Tetouan	Strait of Gibraltar	35 ° 49 '0.7 "  N , 5 ° 44' 58.6"  W.		18 m	76 m	Fl.W.5s

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• Russ Rowlett: The Lighthouse Directory ( English ) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . Retrieved December 5, 2013.