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Cow Head Lighthouse

4th-order fixed lens (lighthouse activated 1909) at Cow Head, Newfoundland; acetylene automatic light installed 1952, deactivated 1979 in favour of battery buoys.

At a glance

Manufacture date: 1907
Lens order: 4th order
Lens type: Fixed

Source Evidence

Cow Head Lighthouse
Fibery external reference: www.lighthousefriends.com
Fibery external reference: www.historicplaces.ca
Fibery external reference: trailpeak.com
Fibery external reference: www.ibiblio.org

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Attribution

"Cow Head Lighthouse" · LUX-ASSET-000053 · © LUX143 · Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International · https://light.lux143.org/heritage-assets/LUX-ASSET-000053/

Citation

LUX Light Archive, Heritage asset: "Cow Head Lighthouse", LUX-ASSET-000053, https://light.lux143.org/heritage-assets/LUX-ASSET-000053/, accessed 2026-08-10, archive v0.24.362.