Kaavi Lighthouse
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| Location | Kaavi Torgu Parish Estonia |
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| Coordinates | 57°58′56″N 22°11′43″E / 57.9822°N 22.195333°E |
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| Constructed | 1954 |
| Construction | concrete tower |
| Height | 15 metres (49 ft) |
| Shape | square trocated pyramidal tower with balcony and no lantern |
| Markings | brown tower with a white horizontal band |
| Power source | aerothermal solar panel, solar power  |
| Light | |
| Focal height | 20 metres (66 ft) |
| Range | 9 nautical miles (17 km; 10 mi) 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) since 1966 |
| Characteristic | Fl W 2.5 s.[1] |
| Estonia no. | EVA 943[2] |
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Kaavi Lighthouse (Estonian: Kaavi Tuletorn) is a lighthouse located in Sõrve Peninsula, in the village of Kaavi, Torgu Parish, on 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]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ 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
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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.
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