Talaimannar Lighthouse
| Talaimannar Lighthouse | ||
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| Place: | Talaimannar | |
| Location: | Mannar , Northern Province , Sri Lanka | |
| Geographical location: | 9 ° 6 '27.1 " N , 79 ° 43' 52" E | |
| Fire carrier height : | 55 ft (16.8 m ) | |
| Fire height : | 64 ft (19.5 m ) | |
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| Identifier : | Fl.W.5s | |
| Scope knows: | 10 nm (18.5 km ) | |
| Construction time: | 1915 | |
| International ordinal number: | F 0884 | |
Talaimannar Lighthouse , occasionally Mannar Iceland Lighthouse is a lighthouse ( English Lighthouse ) in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka . He is in Talaimannar , a place on the island of Mannar .
history
From 1914, Talaimannar was the starting point for a ferry across the Palkstrasse to Dhanushkodi in India . A year later, the 16.8 m high lighthouse was put into operation in the immediate vicinity of the pier . Because of a former beacon located further to the west, the tower is sometimes referred to as the New Talaimannar Lighthouse .
In December 1964 a cyclone destroyed the pier systems in both ports. After Dhanushkodi was not rebuilt, the ferry later ran to Rameswaram . Due to the civil war in Sri Lanka , however, the connection was finally shut down in the 1980s and the lighthouse was left to its fate.
After the end of the civil war, the anti-personnel mines in the area were cleared and the lighthouse was subsequently restored. As an identifier, it now shows a white flash with a return of 5 seconds.
See also
Web links
- New Talaimannar Lighthouse and the Old Pier. Amazing Lanka(English).
- Russ Rowlett: Lighthouses of Sri Lanka ( English ) In: The Lighthouse Directory . University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . Retrieved November 9, 2019.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Old Thalaimannar Lighthouse (Urumalai Lighthouse). Amazing Lanka, accessed November 9, 2019 .
- ↑ List of Lights (Pub. 112)