Location: About 20 miles south of Mount Desert Island
Nearest town: Frenchboro
43 58 06 N
68 07 42 W
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Station established: 1830; Present lighthouse built:
1847; Automated: 1977
Construction material: Granite
Height of tower: 58 feet; Height of focal plane: 75
feet
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Other buildings still standing: 1893 keeper's house,
1895 boathouse, cistern, storage building
Accessibility: The lighthouse is used as a whale
research station and is not open to the general public. It is
best viewed by boat.
Active U.S. Coast Guard aid to navigation. Property
maintained by:
College
of the Atlantic
105 Eden St.
Bar Harbor, ME 04609
(207) 288-5015
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