Nantucket Harbor Range Lights

This article is about the current range lights in Nantucket Harbor. For the predecessor range lights, see Nantucket Beacon and Brant Point Light.

Nantucket Range Rear Light
The Nantucket Harbor Range Lights
Location	Brant Point, Nantucket, Massachusetts
Coordinates	41°17′21.4″N 70°5′30.9″W / 41.289278°N 70.091917°W / 41.289278; -70.091917Coordinates: 41°17′21.4″N 70°5′30.9″W / 41.289278°N 70.091917°W / 41.289278; -70.091917^[1]
Year first lit	1908 (current tower)
Construction	Wood
Tower shape	Pyramidal Skeleton Tower
Markings / pattern	KRW
Height	46 feet (14 m)
Focal height	51 feet (16 m)
Original lens	Higher intensity beam to seaward.
Characteristic	Fixed White
Fog signal	none
USCG number	1-15165^[2]^[3]^[4]

Nantucket Reef Range Front Light
Old Brant Point Light is to the right U.S. Coast Guard photo
Location	Brant Point, Nantucket, Massachusetts
Coordinates	41°17′23.6″N 70°5′32″W / 41.289889°N 70.09222°W / 41.289889; -70.09222^[1]
Year first lit	1908 (current tower)
Construction	Wood
Tower shape	Pyramidal Skeleton Tower
Markings / pattern	KRW
Height	30 feet (9.1 m)
Focal height	35 feet (11 m)
Original lens	Higher intensity beam to seaward.
Characteristic	Q W
Fog signal	none
USCG number	1-15160^[2]^[3]^[4]

The Nantucket Harbor Range Lights are range lights which were built in 1908 to guide vessels through the narrow channel to Nantucket Harbor. They replaced an older arrangement involving the Nantucket Beacon and the Brant Point Light which became unusable when thelaer was replaced with a new tower.

They display red and white vertical striped daymarks, type KRW, one of the twelve combinations used by the Coast Guard.

It is not known why the official USCG name of the front light, Nantucket Reef Range Front Light^[2] includes the word "reef".

References

1 2 The coordinates shown are the official coordinates from the cited Light List and are shown to the precision given there.
1 2 3 Light List, Volume I, Atlantic Coast, St. Croix River, Maine to Shrewsbury River, New Jersey (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard. 2009. p. 135.
1 2 "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Massachusetts". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. 2009-09-14.
1 2 Rowlett, Russ (2009-09-14). "Lighthouses of the United States: Southeast Massachusetts". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Lighthouses of Massachusetts

Annisquam Harbor Bakers Island Billingsgate Island Bird Island Bishop and Clerks Borden Flats Boston Brant Point Broad Sound Channel Butler Flats Buzzards Bay Entrance Cape Ann Cape Poge Chatham Clark's Point Cleveland East Ledge Cuttyhunk Deer Island Derby Wharf Dumpling Rocks Duxbury Pier East Chop Eastern Point Edgartown Harbor Egg Rock Fairhaven Bridge Falmouth Inner Fort Pickering (Winter Island) Gay Head The Graves Great Point Highland Hospital Point Range Front Hospital Point Range Rear Hyannis Rear Range Ipswich Range Long Island Head Long Point Lovells Island Range Marblehead Mayo Beach Minot's Ledge Monomoy Point Nantucket Beacon Nantucket Cliff Range Nantucket Harbor Range Nauset Ned Point Newburyport Harbor Front Range Newburyport Harbor Newburyport Harbor Rear Range Nixes Mate Nobska Old Scituate Palmer Island Plymouth Point Gammon Race Point Sandy Neck Sankaty Head Spectacle Island Range Stage Harbor Straitsmouth Island Tarpaulin Cove Ten Pound Island Thacher Island North Three Sisters of Nauset West Chop West Dennis Wing's Neck Wood End

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