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434: 33: 34: 1420: 456: 44: 468: 1443: 1480: 244:, replacing an earlier tower built in 1876. The light-keeper's house remains standing a few hundred feet to the north. The lighthouse is operated by the 1240: 1519: 964: 944: 500: 979: 415: 392: 899: 1175: 369: 333:
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Georges Island Lighthouse at the Nova Scotia Lighthouse Preservation Society
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white tower with a red vertical stripe on the range line, red dome
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The lighthouse was automated in 1972, and in 2005 the
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United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
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In the summer of 2006 the lighthouse was used by the
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George Island Light


Halifax, Nova Scotia
Coordinates
44°38′26″N 63°33′37″W / 44.640658°N 63.560353°W / 44.640658; -63.560353
Parks Canada
Fog signal
Characteristic
lighthouse
Georges Island
Nova Scotia
Canadian Coast Guard
foghorn
U.S. Navy
List of lighthouses in Canada
List of Lights, Pub. 110: Greenland, The East Coasts of North and South America (Excluding Continental U.S.A. Except the East Coast of Florida) and the West Indies
List of Lights
United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
"Lighthouses of Canada: Eastern Nova Scotia"
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Georges Island Lighthouse: Later History
Archived
Wayback Machine
Georges Island Lighthouse at the Nova Scotia Lighthouse Preservation Society
Archived
Wayback Machine
Aids to Navigation

Halifax Harbour

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