Monday, November 30, 2020

Lighthouse of the Week, November 22-28, 2020: Guard Island, Alaska, USA

 

Another week, another lighthouse.  Alaska does not have a lot of lighthouses, but the ones it does have are pretty and sometimes spectacular.  Search "lighthouse Alaska" on this blog to see what I mean.

This one is Guard Island, near Ketchikan (click there to see where).

Or, more descriptively:

"Located on a island marking the northern entrance to the Tongass Narrows from Clarence Strait, 9 miles (15 km) northwest of Ketchikan."

That's from the Lighthouse Directory, as is the following:
"1924 (station established 1904). Active; focal plane 74 ft (22.5 m); white flash every 10 s. 30 ft (9 m) square cylindrical reinforced concrete tower with lantern and gallery, centered on the roof of a square concrete oil house; DCB-24 aerobeacon. Lighthouse is white concrete; lantern painted black."
The Guard Island lighthouse also has a page at Lighthouse Friends:  Guard Island, AK

Plenty of history there, including a murder.  Not kidding.

One other page about it, at Neal's Lighthouse Blog (he has actually been there):  Guard Island Lighthouse, Alaska

Unlike Neal, I haven't been there.  But I have pictures of it below.  As you'll see, Guard Island isn't very big.  But where it is located is pretty.

And spectacular.






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