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Ocracoke
State: NC
Year established: 1798
Latitude: 35 deg 6
min 32 sec N
Longitude: 75 deg 59
min 10 sec W
Height above sea level: 75 feet Original construction:
40-foot pyramidal wooden tower on Shell Castle Island, made useless by a shift in the channel, and destroyed by lightning in 1818 Rebuilds:
 1823: present 75-foot conical brick tower
Status:
automated in 1959; active aid to navigation
Light characteristic:
fixed white visible for 15 nautical miles
More information:
http://www.nps.gov/caha/ocracokelh.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/va3/keepthelightsshining/NorthCarolina/OcracokeLight.html
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. 7
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