Isles of Shoals Light
by Robert Nickologianis
Title
Isles of Shoals Light
Artist
Robert Nickologianis
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
White Island light.
Location:Southern tip of White Island,Isle of Shoals-Rye,New Hampshire.
Coordinates:42 58 02 N
70 37 24 W
Station established:1821
Built in 1859 of granite & brick.
Height:85 feet above mean water.
Lens range:14 nautical miles every 15 seconds.
Foghorn:sounds every 30 seconds.
Automated in 1986.
Keeper Thomas Laightons daughter Celia Thaxter a famous writer/author who wrote this in 'The Wreck of the Pocahontas'
I lit the lamps in the lighthouse tower.
For the sun dropped down & the day was dead.
They shone like a glorious clustered flower.
Ten golden & five red.
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March 14th, 2013
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