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Name: Baccalieu Island Southwest PT Lighthouse  

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Nearest Town or City:
Bay de Verde, Newfoundland, Canada

Location: Off the tip of the Bay de Verde peninsula at the entrance to Conception and Trinity Bays, on the Avalon Peninsula in eastern Newfoundland


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Photo: Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Managing Organization:
Canadian Coast Guard

Notes:
This station was orginally established as a fog signal station in 1905. A light tower was added in 1953.

Description of Tower: White, square pyramidal skeletal-style tower.

This light is operational

Other Buildings?
Dwelling, utility building.

Date Established: 1905

Date Present Tower Built: 1953

Current Use: Active aid to navigation.

Open To Public? Grounds only.

Keepers: William Cranford, Duncan Blundon, Joseph Bursey, William Blundon, Oliver Blundon, Arthur Young, J.F. Hatch, Pat Rice, F.J. Noonan, Raymond J. Hyde, Eric Blundon and Linus Walsh.


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