Shinagawa Lighthouse
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Shinagawa Lighthouse was a lighthouse in Shinagawa (品川第二砲台), south of Tokyo, Japan.
Location | Shinagawa, Japan (former) Meiji Mura (current) |
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Coordinates | 35°20′29.9″N 136°59′38.9″E |
Tower | |
Constructed | 5 April 1870 |
Construction | brick tower |
Height | 9 metres (30 ft) |
Shape | cylindrical tower with gallery and lantern |
Markings | white tower and lantern |
Heritage | Important Cultural Property |
Light | |
First lit | 5 March 1870 |
Deactivated | 1957 |
Focal height | 15.75 m (51.7 ft) |
Lens | 4th order Fresnel lens |
Range | 9 nmi (17 km; 10 mi) |
Characteristic | decorative light[1] |
The lighthouse was the third of the four lighthouses built by French engineer Léonce Verny. It was relocated to the Meiji Mura historical theme park near Nagoya.[2]
Later lighthouses would be built by the English engineer Richard Henry Brunton, until the Japanese would take over lighthouse construction in 1880.[3]
The lighthouse was first lit on 5 March 1870.[citation needed]
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