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Navassa Island Light is a deactivated lighthouse on Navassa Island, which lies in the Caribbean Sea at the south end of the Windward Passage between the islands of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) to the east and Cuba and Jamaica to the west.[1][2][3] It is on the shortest route between the east coast of the United States and the Panama Canal. The light was built in 1917 and deactivated in 1996. The light is gradually deteriorating from lack of maintenance. The keepers' house is roofless and in ruins.[3]

Navassa Island Light

The light in 1999
Location	Navassa Island Caribbean Sea
Coordinates	18.397423°N 75.012833°W / 18.397423; -75.012833
Tower
Constructed	1917
Foundation	stone basement
Construction	concrete tower
Automated	1929
Height	162 feet (49 m)
Shape	tapered cylindrical tower with buttresses, balcony and lantern
Markings	white unpainted tower black lantern
Operator	U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Light
Deactivated	1996
Focal height	395 feet (120 m)
Lens	2nd order Fresnel lens

The importance of the light before the advent of GPS is evident in the fact that it has the twelfth-highest tower and fourth-highest focal plane of all U.S. lights.

See also

• List of lighthouses in the United States

References

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