heritage asset · lens
Chumbe Island
Chance Brothers 4th-order revolving lens (made 1898, installed 1904) at Chumbe Island, Zanzibar; original lens still in use, site restored and managed as a coral park with museum.
At a glance
- Manufacture date
- 1898
- Lens order
- 4th order
- Lens type
- Revolving
Source Evidence
Rights & Attribution
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Attribution
"Chumbe Island" · LUX-ASSET-000070 · © LUX143 · Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International · https://light.lux143.org/heritage-assets/LUX-ASSET-000070/
Citation
LUX Light Archive, Heritage asset: "Chumbe Island", LUX-ASSET-000070, https://light.lux143.org/heritage-assets/LUX-ASSET-000070/, accessed 2026-08-10, archive v0.24.362.