Tybee Island Light
Lighthouse in Georgia, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tybee Island Light is a lighthouse next to the Savannah River Entrance, on the northeast end of Tybee Island, Georgia. It is one of seven surviving colonial era lighthouse towers, though highly modified in the mid 1800s.[1]
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Location | Tybee Island, Georgia |
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Coordinates | 32°01′20″N 80°50′44″W |
Tower | |
Constructed | 1736 |
Foundation | Stone and timber |
Construction | Brick |
Automated | 1972 |
Height | 144 feet (44 m) |
Shape | Octagonal |
Markings | lower 50 feet (15 m) black, upper part white; lantern, black |
Light | |
First lit | 1867 |
Focal height | 44 m (144 ft) |
Lens | 1791:Oil lamps; 1867:First order Fresnel lens |
Range | 16 nautical miles; 29 kilometres (18 mi) |
Characteristic | Fixed white |
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