Talk:Stannard Rock Light

National Register of Historic Places Low‑importance

	National Register of Historic Places portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject National Register of Historic Places, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of U.S. historic sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.National Register of Historic PlacesWikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic PlacesTemplate:WikiProject National Register of Historic PlacesNational Register of Historic Places articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Lighthouses Mid‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Lighthouses, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of lighthouses and other water navigational aids on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.LighthousesWikipedia:WikiProject LighthousesTemplate:WikiProject LighthousesLighthouses articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Michigan Low‑importance

	Michigan portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Michigan, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the U.S. state of Michigan on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.MichiganWikipedia:WikiProject MichiganTemplate:WikiProject MichiganMichigan articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

A fact from Stannard Rock Light appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 June 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Stannard Rock Light (pictured), known as the "Loneliest Place in the World", is the furthest lighthouse from land and described as one of the top ten engineering feats in the United States?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/June.

Wikipedia

Confused[edit]

Stannard Rock Reef provides a year-round structure for a superior lake trout fishery. Michigan's state record for lake trout was caught at Stannard Rock Reef by 16 year-old Lucas Lanczy on August 17, 1997.

Is "superior" in the first sentence supposed to be capitalized? If not, I would suggest another word, such as superlative.

Any word on the size of the record lake trout?

Sca (talk) 17:43, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Lake Superior Magazine just ran an article on the lighthouse, it does not appear to be online yet so can't really cite it here, but according to them the record is - 1998 a lunker lake trout caught weighed 61.5 poundsEdgeways (talk) 18:50, 15 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

See also the citations in the article. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 22:37, 16 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Crib[edit]

Can someone define what the heck an "open crib" is? Early in the article, before it's used a half dozen times? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Talldean (talk • contribs) 18:01, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

They constructed a crib offsite and then took it out to the Stannard Rock reef. They pumped the water out of the crib and filled it with rock on which a concrete base was poured for the light tower. I will expand the article in the near future as I just located a book with copies of original plans for the construction, etc.--Wpwatchdog (talk) 23:12, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Candle light[edit]

"The 1,400,000 candlepower light was replaced with a 3,000 candlepower light." - reduced by a factor of 500? Sounds strange. --CopperKettle 18:06, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Most sources say that when the Stannard Rock Light was automated, it was reduced to 3,000 candlepower.--Wpwatchdog (talk) 23:20, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Map[edit]

Could this be shown on a map? Geschichte (talk) 22:01, 7 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]