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Currituck Beach
State: NC
Year established: 1875
Latitude: 36 deg 22
min 36 sec N
Longitude: 75 deg 49
min 50 sec W
Height above sea level: 158 feet Original construction:
present 163-foot brick tower
Status:
automated in 1939; active aid to navigation
Light characteristic:
flashing white every 20 seconds visible for 18 nautical miles
Notes:
one of only about a dozen lighthouses using an original Fresnel lens
More information:
 http://www.currituckbeachlight.com/
http://data2.itc.nps.gov/release/Detail.cfm?ID=390
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBLIGHTHOUSES/LHNC.html
U.S. Department of Homeland Security / United States Coast Guard, Light List, Volume 2 Atlantic Coast, Shrewsbury River, New Jersey to
Little River, South Carolina, (Washington, DC: GPO, 2004), p. 6
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