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Yaquina Head
State: OR
Year established: 1873
Latitude: 44 deg 40
min 36 sec N
Longitude: 124 deg 4
min 48 sec W
Height above sea level: 162 feet Original construction:
current 93-ft conical white brick tower Rebuilds:
 1984: all buildings except the tower were removed
Status:
automated in 1966, active aid to navigation; land owned by Bureau of Land Management, Salem District
Light characteristic:
two white flashes grouped every 20 seconds (2 second flash, 2 second dark, 2 second flash, 14 second dark) visible for 19 nautical miles
Notes:
Oregon's tallest lighthouse; original Fresnel lens still in use
More information:
http://www.or.blm.gov/salem/yaquina/lighthse.htm
http://www.yaquinalights.org/yhead.html
http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/light/yaqhead.htm
U.S. Department of Homeland Security / United States Coast Guard, Light List, Volume 6 Pacific Coast and Pacific Islands, Pacific Coast and Outlying Pacific Islands, (Washington, DC: GPO, 2004), p. 8
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