Since last week's lighthouse was the old Cape North lighthouse, which used to be the Cape Race lighthouse, and is now the lighthouse in the inland capital Ottawa (I don't think there's another one), I thought this week it was appropriate to feature the current Cape North lighthouse.
And that's what I was planning to do. Until I found out that the current Cape North lighthouse is, well, somewhat uninteresting. Using the link from the Lighthouse Directory, you can see what I mean.
So I switched to the current Cape Race lighthouse, which is much more interesting. I also had this location in the last article, but let's do it again. To be specific, Cape Race is on the Southern Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland.
Now I can let the Lighthouse Directory do it's thing and provide the veryinteresting information about this lighthouse.
"1907 (station established 1856). Active; focal plane 52 m (170 ft); white flash every 7.5 s. 29 m (96 ft) cylindrical concrete tower with lantern and gallery, painted white; lantern is red. The original Chance Brothers hyperradiant Fresnel lens (larger than 1st order) is still in use; one of fewer than a dozen ever built, the lens has a range of 24 miles. ... This light station, the first landfall for ships bound to Canada from Europe, has an importance in Canadian lighthouse history similar to the importance of Cape Hatteras Light in the U.S. When it was built it was the world's most powerful lighthouse at 1.5 million candlepower. The station played a key role in communications for decades and in 1912 it received the SOS call from the Titanic; the Myrick Wireless Interpretation Centre is a replica of the wireless station. Cape Race has been designated a national historic site but the park is undeveloped as yet.See, I told you it was much more interesting.
There are other pictures in the article (including light from the lens), but this historical one gets the size aspect across quite well.
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