Monthly Archives: August 2011

Now we need a Canadian One!

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Illustrated Map & Directory Locates Every Lighthouse in the United States 

RHINEBECK, N.Y., Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ –Every year millions of travelers visit the historic beacons that light the shores of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, Gulf Coast, Great Lakes and inland waters. To aid those voyages of discovery, Bella Terra Publishing – http://www.bellaterramaps.com – has produced an all-new edition of the United States Lighthouses Illustrated Map & Guide. More than 75,000 copies of the map have been sold since 1999, with the last update in 2004.

(Photo:  http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110802/NY44218 )

New US lighthouse map

The United States Lighthouses Illustrated Map & Guide locates nearly 800 standing lighthouses across the 50 states. The detailed cartography and comprehensive directory are complemented by 46 original watercolor illustrations, most of them specially commissioned. Lighthouse buffs can engage in armchair travel, plan future trips, or simply enjoy the evocative paintings—from Portland Head, Maine, to Kilauea Point, Hawaii. See the rest of the story here.

Top 10 Tallest Lighthouses In The World

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– from the website CoolThingsWorld.

#1 Jeddah Light (113 meters tall)

Today, we can find lighthouses not at the edges of the ocean only. These 10 lighthouses on the following list for example. Some are standing far away from the ocean and they rise taller than most building around the site where they stand. Here are top 10 tallest lighthouse in the world. See the rest of the article here.

The Lost Port Alberni Lighthouse

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 Ever since I saw the extract below from the archived BC newspapers I have been reading, I was very curious about the location and/or name of the lighthouse in the present day.

The party who went to Alberni to survey a lighthouse land reserve have returned. They report about 170 Chinese miners at work, only 40 of whom pay the Government tax. [Colonist, 1878-07-19]

 

This could not have been Port Alberni as it was not incorporated as a city until 1912, but there was an Alberni Post Office there which opened May 01, 1885 and closed July 01, 1891. And, GeoBC states in a search of Alberni:

Relative location: In City of Port Alberni, head of Alberni Inlet Barkley Sound, Alberni Land District.

Wikipedia also states:

In 1967, the neighbouring towns of Alberni (on the north) and Port Alberni (on the south) amalgamated to form the city of Port Alberni. Continue reading The Lost Port Alberni Lighthouse →