Lighthouse of the Week, October 8-14, 2017: Kallbådan, Finland

This is kind of humorous -- as I was searching for this week's lighthouse, I decided to see what other lighthouses were in Finland.  It turns out that I have done one lighthouse from Finland per year  (even though the first two years were the same lighthouse, named Bengtskär).

So I'm due for a lighthouse from Finland again, and this one is posted almost exactly a year after last year's Finnish lighthouse.

So let me introduce Kallbådan lighthouse. Apparently it's also called Porkkala Light.  It's not far from Helsinki, and it's directly across the Gulf of Finland from Tallinn, Estonia.

Here's a locator map (but you'll have to zoom out to figure out where it is).  Because it is so hard to find, here are its decimal latitude and longitude coordinates:  59.868958, 24.303068.

From the Lighthouse Directory:

"1928 (lightship station established 1858). Active; focal plane 21 m (69 ft); three quick flashes every 20 s, white, red or green depending on direction. 21 m (69 ft) square stone tower with lantern and gallery, rising from one end of a 2-story stone keeper's house, all mounted on a large square stone pier."

Now, the last thing that the Lighthouse Directory says is that the lighthouse wasn't operated during the Soviet occupation of Finland, and when it was restarted, the light was automated.  So  I don't know if the picture of the lighthouse's Fresnel lens is recent or not.