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Orient Point
State: NY
Year established: 1899
Latitude: 41 deg 9
min 48 sec N
Longitude: 72 deg 13
min 25 sec W
Height above sea level: 64 feet Original construction:
current 45-foot conical brick-lined, cast-iron tower, on black pier
Status:
automated in 1954; active aid to navigation
Light characteristic:
flashing white every 5 seconds visible for 17 nautical miles; fog signal 2 blasts every 30 seconds
More information:
 http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/light/orientpt.htm
http://eastendlighthouses.org/oPoint.htm
Bachand, Robert G.,Northeast Lights - Lighthouses and Lightships - Rhode Island to Cape May, NJ, (Norwalk, CT: Sea Sports Publications, 1989), pp. 225-227
U.S. Coast Guard, DHS, LIGHT LIST
Volume I, ATLANTIC COAST. St. Croix River, Maine to Shrewsbury River, New Jersey, (Washington, DC:U.S. Government Printing Office, 2004), p. 196
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