Outer Island Light

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Outer Island Light
Location:	Wisconsin
Coordinates WGS-84 (GPS)	47°04′36″N, 90°25′00″W
Year first lit:	1874
Automated:	1961
Foundation:	Stone
Construction:	Brick
Tower shape:	White Conical
Height:	80 ft (24 m)
Original lens:	Third order Fresnel lens
Range:	15 statute miles (24 km)
Characteristic:	White, Flashing, 10 sec

The Outer Island lighthouse is a lighthouse located on the northern tip of Outer Island, one of the Apostle Islands, in Lake Superior in Ashland County, Wisconsin, near the city of Bayfield.

Currently owned by the National Park Service and part of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, part of reference number 77000145. Listed in the Library of Congress Historic American Buildings Survey, WI-318. The lighthouse is attached to a two story, red brick keepers quarters.

[edit] See also

• Apostle Islands Lighthouses

[edit] External links

• Lighthouse friends article
• NPS Inventory of Historic Light Stations - Wisconsin
• Volume 7, USCG Lightlist (PDF)
• Library of Congress Historic American Buildings Survey Survey number HABS WI-318

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