 Balache Point in 2011 | |
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| Location | Nova Scotia, Canada |
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| Coordinates | 45°38′53″N61°24′52″W / 45.64803°N 61.41438°W /45.64803; -61.41438 |
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| Construction | lumber  |
| Height | 6 metres (20 ft) |
| Markings | white tower with a red vertical stripe on the range line |
| Light | |
| First lit | 1963 (current) |
| Focal height | 9 metres (30 ft) |
| Range | 16 nautical miles (30 km; 18 mi) |
| Characteristic | Oc Y |
Balache Point Lighthouse, also known asBalache Point Range Rear Lighthouse, is an activeCanadianlighthouse located next to theCanso Canal, nearPort Hastings,Inverness County, Nova Scotia. Thesalt shaker style light, which sits on a small hillock on the Cape Breton side of the canal, is the second lighthouse to be built on the site.
The first lighthouse at Balache point was built in 1905, it displayed a fixed white light from a 9.7-metre-high (32 ft) wooden tower. A fog horn was added in 1908, and it housed a 5th order lens from 1922 to 1941. The light was decommissioned in the 1950s.Lighthouse keepers were Allan Nicholson and Catherine Nicholson.[1][2][3]
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The current lighthouse was built in 1963, as the rear beacon of a pair ofrange lights, helping to guide vessels into the canal at its northern end. The canal and its locks, allows ships to pass through theCanso Causeway, which crosses theStrait of Canso.[4]
The front range light, built at the same time, was of a similar design, until replaced in 1991 by a more functional 6-metre-high (20 ft)skeletal tower next to the water's edge.[5]
The tapering 6.7-metre-high (22 ft) wooden tower is of the salt shaker design, painted white, with a red lantern and balcony, although pictures from 2008 show an all-white tower and lantern. It has a broad vertical red stripe to mark the range line, matching the stripe on the front range tower. Both the front and rear lights display an occulting yellow light, flashing every eleven seconds, and both have a range of 16 nautical miles.[6] The light is automatic, but only operates seasonally between April and December.[5]
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