Light List

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**U.S.C.G. Light List**
The front cover of a Light List volume.
Purpose:	Provide detailed information on aids to navigation.
Publication Frequency:	Yearly
Published by:	United States Coast Guard
Available Online:	Yes [1]

The United States Coast Guard Light List is an American navigation publication in 7 volumes made available yearly by the U.S. Coast Guard which gives information on lighted navigation aids, unlighted buoys, radiobeacons, radio direction finder calibration stations, daybeacons, racons, and LORAN stations.

Each volume of the Light List contains aids to navigation in geographic order from north to south along the Atlantic coast, from east to west along the Gulf coast, and from south to north along the Pacific coast. It lists seacoast aids first, followed by entrance and harbor aids listed from seaward.

Intracoastal Waterway aids are listed last in geographic order in the direction from New Jersey to Florida to the border of Texas and Mexico.

The listings are preceded by a description of the aids to navigation system in the United States, luminous range diagram, geographic range tables, and other information.

[edit] Source

The text of this article originated from section 409 of The American Practical Navigator, a document produced by the government of the United States of America.