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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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