Battle Island Light Explained

Battle Island Light
Location:Battle Island, Ontario
Coordinates:48.7518°N -87.5573°W
Yearbuilt:1877 (first)
Yearlit:1911 (current)
Automated:1991
Construction:wooden-frame (first)
poured concrete tower (current)
Shape:tapered octagonal tower with balcony and lantern
Marking:white tower, red lantern
Height:43feet
Focalheight:117feet
Range:18miles
Characteristic:Fl (3) W 24s.
Managingagent:Canadian Coast Guard[1]

Battle Island Light is a lighthouse on the Canadian shore of Lake Superior. It is located on the westerly point of Battle Island, 28.5miles east-northeast from Lamb Island Light.

It was built as a white light, visible for 18miles in clear weather. When built, it operated as a bright flash, four-second interval, bright flash, four-second interval, and then bright flash, 16-second interval, with a concurrent lower-strength light operating at 12-seconds constant/ 12 seconds eclipsed. Its fog horn (originally referred to as a "fog diaphone") blasted for 3½ seconds and was then silent for 26½ seconds.[2] The lighthouse was rebuilt in 1915–16 in response to increased demand from local wood pulp carriers and commercial fishing boats.

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  1. January 4, 2016.
  2. Book: U.S. Lake Survey . Bulletin no. 25: survey of northern and western lakes. 1916. Lake Superior. 99. U.S. Lake Survey Office. Detroit, MI. https://books.google.com/books?id=whtaAAAAYAAJ&q=%22battle+island+light%22&pg=PA99.