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

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"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.