Carquinez Strait Light
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Carquinez Strait Lighthouse is a lighthouse in California, United States. It was originally approximately 20 miles inland from the mouth of the San Francisco Bay near Vallejo, California.
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Location | Vallejo California United States |
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Coordinates | 38.067816°N 122.213832°W / 38.067816; -122.213832 |
Tower | |
Constructed | 1910 (first) |
Foundation | wooden pier |
Construction | wooden tower |
Automated | 1963 |
Shape | square tower with balcony and lantern attached to keeper's house |
Markings | cream colour tower and house, red lantern roof |
Operator | The Lighthouse at the Glen Cove Marina[1] [2] |
Light | |
First lit | 1963 (automated beacon and fog signal at the pier) |
Deactivated | 1951 (first) |
Lens | fourth order Fresnel lens |
Characteristic | F R |
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