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Moose Peak
State: ME
Year established: 1827
Latitude: 44 deg 28
min 27 sec N
Longitude: 67 deg 31
min 55 sec W
Height above sea level: 72 feet Original construction:
45-foot white tower Rebuilds:
 1851: present 57-foot brick tower
1912: fog signal house
Status:
Automated in 1972; active aid to navigation; converted to solar power in 1999
Light characteristic:
Flashes white every 30 seconds, visible from 17 nautical miles; fog signal, 2 blasts every 30 seconds.
Notes:
The Moose Peak Light is at one of the foggiest locations on the Maine Coast; from 1918 to 1934, the fog horn sounded for an average of 1607 hours per year, more than any other Maine light station.
More information:
http://lighthouse.cc/moosepeak/index.html
http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/light/moosepk.htm
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBLIGHTHOUSES/LHME.html
Office of the Light House Board, List of Lights and Fog Signals on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States, (Washington, DC: GPO, 1895), pp. 18-19
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