 Original 1904 Cape Sarichef lighthouse (USCG) | |
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| Location | Cape Sarichef Unimak Island Alaska United States |
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| Coordinates | 54°35′53.68″N 164°55′39.38″W / 54.5982444°N 164.9276056°W |
| Tower | |
| Constructed | 1979 (current) |
| Construction | wooden tower (first) reinforced concrete tower (second) metal skeletal tower (current) |
| Automated | 1979 |
| Height | 7 metres (23 ft) (second) |
| Shape | hexagonal tower centered on the keeper's house (first) hexagonal tower on fog signal building (second) |
| Operator | United States Coast Guard[1] [2] |
| Light | |
| First lit | 1904 (first) 1950 (second) |
| Deactivated | 1950 (first) 1979 (second) |
| Focal height | 52 metres (171 ft) (current) |
| Lens | Third order Fresnel lens (first) |
| Range | 8 nautical miles (15 km; 9.2 mi) |
| Characteristic | Fl W 2.5s. (obscured from 223.5° to 018.5°) |
Cape Sarichef Light is a lighthouse located on the northwest tip of Unimak Island, approximately 630 miles (1,010 km) southwest of Anchorage, Alaska. The most westerly and most isolated lighthouse in North America, Cape Sarichef Light marks the northwest end of Unimak Pass, the main passage through the Aleutian Islands between the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean. When it was first lit on July 1, 1904, it was Alaska's second coastal lighthouse (after Scotch Cap Light), and the only staffed U.S. lighthouse on the Bering Sea. Today, the lighthouse is automated, and the beacon is mounted on a skeleton tower.
Cape Sarichef was named in 1816 by Russian explorer Otto von Kotzebue after Admiral Gavril Sarychev of the Imperial Russian Navy.
- ^ Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Alaska". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
- ^ Alaska Historic Light Station Information & Photography USCG Retrieved 7 June 2016