Lamèque Island

Big Shippegan Light
New Brunswick
Location New Brunswick, Canada
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Coordinates 47°43′19.82″N 64°39′38.18″W / 47.7221722°N 64.6606056°W / 47.7221722; -64.6606056
Year first constructed 1872
Construction wooden tower
Tower shape octagonal frustun tower with balcony and lantern
Markings / pattern white tower, red lantern
Height 16.5 metres (54 ft)
Focal height 16.5 metres (54 ft)
Original lens fourth-order Fresnel lens
Current lens Barbier, Bernard et Turenne lantern
Light source mains power
Range 15 nautical miles (28 km; 17 mi)
Characteristic Fl Y 5s.
Admiralty number H1530
CHS number CCG 1254
NGA number 7392
ARLHS number CAN-035
Managing agent Canadian Coast Guard[1][2]

Lamèque Island (French: Île Lamèque) is a Canadian island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence at the northeastern tip of Gloucester County, New Brunswick.

The island has an area of 150 square kilometres (58 sq mi).[3] It is separated from mainland North America on the south by the Shippagan Gut with the island forming Lameque Bay, Shippagan Harbour and Shippagan Bay west of this channel. The island is separated from Miscou Island on the north by the Miscou Channel, with both islands forming Miscou Harbour.

The Shippagan Gut is bridged between the town of Shippagan on the mainland to the local service district of Chiasson-Savoy on Lamèque Island by a 1,000-metre (3,300-foot) combination causeway-bridge with a lift bridge over a navigation channel for small craft.

The Miscou Channel is bridged between the community of Little Shippagan on Lamèque Island to the community of Miscou Harbour on Miscou Island by the 2000 metre Miscou Island Bridge.

Lamèque Island and Miscou Island separate Chaleur Bay from the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Northern New Brunswick The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 24 February 2017
  2. ↑ List of Lights, Pub. 110: Greenland, The East Coasts of North and South America (Excluding Continental U.S.A. Except the East Coast of Florida) and the West Indies (PDF). List of Lights. United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 2016.
  3. ↑ "Statistics Canada Chapter 15, Geography" (PDF). http://www.statcan.gc.ca/. Statistics Canada. p. 213. Retrieved 19 December 2014. External link in |website= (help)

Coordinates: 47°48′47″N 64°37′25″W / 47.81306°N 64.62361°W / 47.81306; -64.62361


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