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Balache Point Lighthouse also known as Balache Point Range Rear Lighthouse is an active Canadian lighthouse located next to the Canso Canal, near Port Hastings, Inverness County, Nova Scotia. The salt shaker style light, which sits on a small hillock on the Cape Breton side of the canal, is the second lighthouse to be built on the site.

Balache Point Lighthouse

Balache Point in 2011
Location	Nova Scotia, Canada
Coordinates	45°38′53″N 61°24′52″W
Tower
Construction	lumber
Height	6 metres (20 ft)
Markings	white tower with a red vertical stripe on the range line
Light
First lit	1963 (current)
Focal height	9 metres (30 ft)
Range	16 nautical miles (30 km; 18 mi)
Characteristic	Oc Y

History

The first lighthouse at Balache point was built in 1905, it displayed a fixed white light from a 9.7-metre-high (32 ft) wooden tower. A fog horn was added in 1908, and it housed a 5th order lens from 1922 to 1941. The light was decommissioned in the 1950s. Lighthouse keepers were Allan Nicholson and Catherine Nicholson.[1][2][3]

The current lighthouse was built in 1963, as the rear beacon of a pair of range lights, helping to guide vessels into the canal at its northern end. The canal and its locks, allows ships to pass through the Canso Causeway, which crosses the Strait of Canso.[4]

The front range light, built at the same time, was of a similar design, until replaced in 1991 by a more functional 6-metre-high (20 ft) skeletal tower next to the water's edge.[5]

Description

The tapering 6.7-metre-high (22 ft) wooden tower is of the salt shaker design, painted white, with a red lantern and balcony, although pictures from 2008 show an all-white tower and lantern. It has a broad vertical red stripe to mark the range line, matching the stripe on the front range tower. Both the front and rear lights display an occulting yellow light, flashing every eleven seconds, and both have a range of 16 nautical miles.[6] The light is automatic, but only operates seasonally between April and December.[5]

See also

• List of lighthouses in Canada

References

External links

• Balache Point Lighthouse at the Nova Scotia Lighthouse Preservation Society
• Aids to Navigation Canadian Coast Guard

На других языках

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- [en] Balache Point Lighthouse

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[ru] Маяк Балаш-Пойнт

Маяк Балаш-Пойнт (англ. Balache Point Lighthouse), также известный как маяк Балаш-Пойнт-Рейндж-Рир (англ. Balache Point Range Rear Lighthouse), — маяк, расположенный в проливе Кансо на мысе Балаш-Пойнт, графство Инвернесс, провинция Новая Шотландия, Канада. Построен в 1905 году.

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