heritage asset · lens

Wakaya Island

Chance Brothers 3rd-order fixed/occulting lens (made 1901, installed 1902) on a hexagonal piled tower at Wakaya Island, Fiji -- likely prefabricated and shipped from England; decommissioned and abandoned since 2016.

At a glance

Manufacture date
1901
Lens order
3rd order
Lens type
Fixed

Source Evidence

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"Wakaya Island" · LUX-ASSET-000088 · © LUX143 · Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International · https://light.lux143.org/heritage-assets/LUX-ASSET-000088/

Citation

LUX Light Archive, Heritage asset: "Wakaya Island", LUX-ASSET-000088, https://light.lux143.org/heritage-assets/LUX-ASSET-000088/, accessed 2026-08-10, archive v0.24.362.