EAST CAPE LIGHTHOUSE.
INFORMATION FOE MAEINERS. [by tbleobaph.] Dunedin. Thursday. Ifc is notified that after 9th August a light will be exhibited from sunset to sunrise from the lighthouse which has been erected on East Island, neitr East Cape. The position and characteristics are as follows :— Site of the light is in latitude 37 degrees Iminutes Bouth and longitude 178 degrees 30 minutes east,- as measured from the Admiralty chart. The tower is constructed of cast iron, and the total height from bottom of base to top of lantern is G9 feet. It is painted white, and the light will be 362 feet above the level of the sea at high water. It ib a dioptric revolving white light, of the second order, showing a white flash at intervals of ten seconds. It will be visible seaward over an arc of 280 degrees of the horizon, or as far round as the land will allow, and in ordinary clear weather it will be seen 22 nautical miles from the deck of a vessel 15 feet above the sea level.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11593, 20 July 1900, Page 3
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179EAST CAPE LIGHTHOUSE. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11593, 20 July 1900, Page 3
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