Kaavi Lighthouse

Lighthouse in Estonia

Lighthouse

57°58′56″N 22°11′43″E / 57.9822°N 22.195333°E / 57.9822; 22.195333TowerConstructed1954Constructionconcrete towerHeight15 metres (49 ft)Shapesquare trocated pyramidal tower with balcony and no lanternMarkingsbrown tower with a white horizontal bandPower sourceaerothermal solar panel, solar power

LightFocal height20 metres (66 ft)Range9 nautical miles (17 km; 10 mi)
6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) since 1966CharacteristicFl W 2.5 s.^[1]Estonia no.EVA 943^[2] Map

Kaavi Lighthouse (Estonian: Kaavi Tuletorn) is a lighthouse located in Sõrve Peninsula, in the village of Kaavi, Torgu Parish, in the island of Saaremaa, in Estonia.

The lighthouse is a concrete square tower, with a gallery but no lantern, mounted on a concrete square block. The lighthouse is painted brown with a broad white horizontal band in the centre of the structure.^[3] The lighthouse's location is on the southeast side of the Sõrve Peninsula, which is about four kilometres east of Mäebe.^[4]

References

^ Kaavi Lighthouse Archived 22 November 2015 at the Wayback Machine Estonian Lighthouse Society
^ Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Southwestern Estonia". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
^ "Photograph Of The Lighthouse". Panoramio. Archived from the original on 30 January 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
^ Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Southwestern Estonia". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 25 September 2015.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kaavi lighthouse.

"Navigatsioonimärgi 943, Kaavi tuletorn andmed". Navigatsioonimärkide andmekogu (in Estonian). 15 August 2016. Archived from the original on 15 August 2016. Retrieved 7 May 2019.

Lighthouses of Estonia

Italics indicate inactive sites.

Southwestern Estonia