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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 232, 1 October 1925, Page 9

The aerial lighthouse erected on Mont | Afriaue by tie French Government is ' now in commission, and the light -which j it throws out is the most powerful arta- | final haninant in the world. Standing on i the summit of thi~ motmturn. a peak of I the Cote dOr range of the JLangres ' Plateau, some sis miles -west of Dijon, at ;an elevation of 1900 feet, above sea level. j this light is said to be of 1.000,000.000 ! candle power, but as the French unit of I lighting eSciency is only nine-tenths of i the Bngßsfc standard, it is probaiily not | more than 900.000.090 candle power. i That, however, is afteen _____ more | powerful than the biggest marine ligntr basse —=&at of 60,000.000 candle power at Navesink. New owing to its "Teat elevation its range oi visibility is enormously greater than any other lighthouse. If it were on tiie coast, and viewed rrom the open sea, the actual light eouM-be seen from a, distance of 5-5 mf!-*"^