Belle Isle Northeast Light, Federal heritage lighthouse on Belle Isle, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Belle Isle Northeast Light is a 27-metre, 12-sided flying buttress lighthouse on Belle Isle, Newfoundland. Its light sits at a focal plane of 42 metres above sea level and flashes white every eleven seconds. A single-blast fog signal may sound every 30 seconds when needed.
The lighthouse was built in 1905 when Newfoundland was not yet part of Canada. It belongs to a series of nine buttressed towers designed to ensure safe passage through the strait for shipping traffic.
The tower is one of nine buttressed lighthouses designed by William P. Anderson around 1910, and its 12-sided flying-buttress form is what earned it recognition as a federal heritage building. It shares Belle Isle with two other lighthouses, and its light flashes white every eleven seconds.
The light sits at a focal plane of 42 metres above sea level, so it is visible far out in the strait. In fog, a single blast may sound every 30 seconds; the white flash comes every eleven seconds. The tower stands on Belle Isle, one of three lighthouses on the island.
Belle Isle Northeast Light is one of nine buttressed lighthouses William P. Anderson designed for Canada around 1910, and its tower has twelve sides rather than the octagonal form sometimes cited. Its light sits 42 metres above sea level and flashes white every eleven seconds.
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