Cilaibi Lighthouse

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Cilaibi Lighthouse
Cilaibi Lighthouse
Location:	Cilaibi, Hualien County, Republic of China
Coordinates WGS-84 (GPS)	24°00′57″N 121°38′38″E / 24.015818, 121.643983
Year first constructed:	1931
Year first lit:	1931
Automated:	1931
Deactivated:	1945
Foundation:	1963
Construction:	1963
Tower shape:	pentangle tower
Markings/Pattern:	white
Height:	7.6 m
Original lens:	First-order Fresnel lens
Characteristic:	Flashed once every three seconds

Cilaibi Lighthouse (traditional Chinese: 奇萊鼻燈塔) is one of several lighthouses in Taiwan. It is located in Cilaibi in the north of Hualien Harbor in Hualien County. Now Cilaibi Lighthouse is administrated by Customs Central, a part of Ministry of Finance (Republic of China). The lighthouse is built between the Central Mountain Range and the Pacific Ocean. Also, the lighthouse is not open for public.

1 History
2 Develepment
3 See also
4 External Links

[edit] History

The lighthouse was built by Japanese in 1931. The building is 7.6 meters high, concrete and white. It used acetylene flashing light, using pressure-regulated acetylene and timing device, to flash once at a regualr 3 seconds interval. During World War II, the lighthouse was serious damaged by Alliance's bombing.

[edit] Develepment

Until 1963, in order to coordinate Hualien Harbor to be an international port, therefore, nearby the original lighthouse base, a newly white pentagon concrete building was built into a new lighthouse. The newly built Cilaibi Lighthouse uses 4th class white light electric lamp, the light flashing 3 seconds and dimming 3 seconds at a regular 6 seconds interval, and the luminous intensity is 28,000 cd. Then, in 1973, setting a radio beacon pole, output power 100 watts and range 100 nms, as was coordinated with the Lyudao Lighthouse radio beacon pole for the ships mutual positioning. In 1985, a radar beacon pole was set. Thus, in 1992, the communication systems which were comprehensively changed into the dual-frequency radar beacon pole.