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Note: These positions came
from a variety of sources, not
always
deemed accurate enough for navigational purposes. They are intended to
provide an historical
perspective, and are not
intended for
navigational purposes. Through the years even official sources have
reported different positions for the same lighthouse.
Absecon Lighthouse -
39° 21' 56" x 74° 24' 53"
Barnegat Lighthouse - 39° 45' 49" x 74° 06' 05"
Bergen Point Lighthouse - 40° 38' 32.5" x 74°
08'
56.4"
Brandywine Shoal Lighthouse (old screwpile)- 38°
59' 10"
x 75° 06' 48"`
Cape May Lighthouse - 38° 55' 59" x 74° 57' 39"
Cohansey Lighthouse - (1838 lighthouse) 39° 20' 19"
x
75° 21' 38" (1883 ighthouse) 39° 20' 33" x 75° 21' 44"
Conover Beacon - 40° 25' 14" x 74° 03' 21"
Cross Ledge - 39° 09' 47" x 75° 16' 07"
Deepwater Point Front Range Light (1876)- 39° 41'
04" x
75° 30' 50"
Deepwater Point Rear Range Light (1876) - 39° 41'
59" x
75° 29' 38"
East Point Lighthouse - 39° 11'45" x 75° 01' 39"
Egg Island Lighthouse (old) - 39° 10' 28" x 75°
08'
56" (new) 39° 10' 44" x 75° 08' 13"
Elbow Beacon - 40° 42' 05.9" x 74° 07' 28.8"
Elbow of Cross Ledge - 39° 10' 54" x 75° 16'
17"
Finns Point Front Range Light (old) - 39° 35' 39" x
75° 32' 18"
Finns Point Rear Range Light - 39° 37' 02" c
75° 32'
03"
Fort Mifflin Front Range Light - aka
Mifflin Bar
Range,
or Fort Mifflin Bar Cut, Tinicum Island Front Range Light,
Tinicum
Front Range Light (1880) - 39° 50' 51" x 75° 15' 11"
Fort Mifflin Rear Range Light (1880)- 39° 50' 35" x
75° 15' 40"
Fourteen Foot Bank (technically in Delaware) - 39°
02'
54" x 75° 10' 57"
Hereford Inlet Lighthouse - 39° 00' 00" x 74°
47' 00"
Little Egg Harbor Lighthouse - aka Tucker
Island
Lighthouse, and Sea Haven Lighthouse, 39° 30' 19" x 74° 17' 09"
Horseshoe Lower Front Range Light - 39° 52' 23" x
75°
09' 02"
Horseshoe Upper Range Light - 39° 52' 25" x 75°
08'
56"
Horseshoe Rear Range Light - 39° 52' 17" x 75°
09' 00"
Ludlum Beach Lighthouse - 39° 09' 42" x 74° 41'
05"
Maurice River Cove Lighthouse - front light - 39°
13' 09"
x 75° 02' 46" : rear light - 39° 13' 24" x 75° 02' 49"
Miah Maull Lighthouse - 39° 07' 33" x 75° 12'
34"
Navesink Twin Lights - North Tower at 40° 23' 45" x
73° 59' 11" : South Tower at 40° 23' 43" by 73° 59' 10"
Passaic Lighthouse - 40° 41' 44" x 74° 07' 40"
Point Comfort Front Range Light - 40° 26' 51" x
74°
07' 17"
Sandy Hook East Beacon - aka the Hook Beacon -
40° 28' 16" x 74° 00' 27"
Sandy Hook Lighthouse - 40° 26' 40" x 74° 00'
08"
Sandy Hook West Beacon - 40° 27' 48" x 74° 00'
27"
Ship John Shoal Lighthouse - 39° 18' 19" x 75°
22' 37"
Tinicum Island Rear Range Light - 39° 50' 51" x
75°
14' 24"
Waakaack Rear Range Light - 40° 26' 36" x 74°
08' 11"
Lightships - as of 1941
Ambrose Station-40° 27' x 73° 49'
Barnegat Station-39° 46' x 73° 56'
Five Fathom Bank Station-38° 47' x 74° 35'
Scotland Station-40° 27' x 73° 55'
Upper Middle Lightship (1823) (also known variously as
the
Cross
Ledge Lightship, Upper Middle Ground Lightship and Lightboat #2)-
39°
02' 54" x 75° 10' 57"
Characteristics of the lights
Characteristic- Lights are given
distinctive characteristics so that one light may be distiguished from
another. This is achieved by using a combination of colors, flashes of
various duration, or varying the intervals between flashes.
Classes of Lights- there are 7 basic kinds of lights:
- Fixed - Showing a steady light.
- Flashing - two sub-types - single flash at regular
intervals where the
duration of light is less than the duration of darkness, and a steady
light, which is totally eclipsed at regular intervals and the duration
of light is less than the duration of darkness.
- Group Flashing - Two or more flashes at regular
intervals.
- Group occulting - showing a steady light, with, at
regular
intervals,a group of 2 or more sudden eclipses.
- Occulting - showing a steady light at regular
intervals
followed by a sudden and total elcipse.
- Fixed and Flashing - a fixed light varied at regular
intervals by a
single flash of greater brilliancy. Flash may or may nor be preceeded
and/or followed by an eclipse.
- Fixed, group flashing - showing a fixed light varied
at
regular
intervals by a group of two or more flashes of greater brilliancy,
which may or may not be preceeded or followed by an eclipse.
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