Beacon (disambiguation)

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The term "beacon" can refer to several things:

• Beacon, traditionally a fire lit on a hill to attract attention.
• Electric beacon, a type of beacon used with direction finding equipment to find one's relative location.
• Aerodrome beacon, a lighting device which indicates the location of a civilian airport.
• Distress radiobeacons, tracking transmitters that aid in the detection and location of boats, aircraft, and/or persons in distress.
• Web beacon, used to track a user's visit of web pages.
• Beacon (apple), an apple cultivar.
• Beacon (Facebook), a part of Facebook's Ads system that collects and publishes activities of its users from external websites.
• The Beacon (The Twilight Zone), the first segment of the eleventh episode of the television series The New Twilight Zone.

In Canada:

• Beacon Corner, Alberta
• Beaconia, Manitoba
• Beacon Heights (Edmonton)
• Beacon Heights, Ontario
• Beacon Hill North, Ontario
• Beacon Hill South, Ontario
• Beaconwood, Ontario
• Border Beacon, Quebec
• Le Beacon, Quebec
• Beaconsfield, Quebec
• Beacon Hill, Saskatchewan

In the United Kingdom:

• Barr Beacon, West Midlands
• Beacon, Devon
• Beacon End, Essex
• The Beacon Way
• Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire
• The Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales
• Dunkery Beacon, Somerset
• Ivinghoe Beacon, Buckinghamshire
• Worcestershire Beacon

See also Beacon Hill

In the United States:

• Beacon, New York
• Beacon Mountain, next to Beacon, New York
• Beacon Falls, Connecticut

In Antarctica:

• Beacon Valley is the location of the oldest ice in the world, at about 4 million years.

In Australia:

• Beacon, Western Australia

Companies:

• Beacon (gas), a brand name for a chain of gas stations owned by the Valero Energy Corporation.
• BEACON Alliance, a biomedical engineering consortium in Hartford, Connecticut.
• Beacon Communications (publisher), a publisher of weekly newspapers in Rhode Island.
• Beacon Communications Corporation, a defunct newspaper publisher in Massachusetts.
• Beacon Center, a rehabilitation center in New York.
• Beacon Pictures, formerly Beacon Communications, an American film production company.
• Beacon Economics, a research and consulting firm specializing in analyses of real estate markets, local economic development, and public and private policy issues.