Little Basses Reef Lighthouse
| Little Basses Reef Lighthouse | ||
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| Place: |
 Sri Lanka , Hambantota District
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| Location: | 5 nautical miles from the coast | |
| Geographical location: | 6 ° 24 '26.3 " N , 81 ° 43' 48.8" E | |
| Fire carrier height : | 121 ft (36.9 m ) | |
| Fire height : | 112 ft (34.1 m ) | |
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| Identifier : | VQ (2) W.10s | |
| Scope knows: | 27 nm (50 km ) | |
| Optics: | Fresnel lens | |
| Construction time: | 1878 | |
| International ordinal number: | F 0842 | |
Little 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 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-foot-high tower stands on Little bass Reef, a 16 nautical miles long reef ( English Reef ) off the southeast coast of the district Hambantota . The granite for the offshore structure completed in 1878 comes from Scotland and England .
The beacon has a fire height of 34 m and shows as an identifier a group of two quick twinkles with a return of 10 seconds (VQ (2) W.10s).
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.
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 22, 2019.
- Little Basses Light. Lighthouse Digest(English).