West Quoddy Head in Lubec, Maine is the easternmost point of the contiguous United States and the closest point to Europe from a point in the fifty States. West Quoddy Head overlooks Quoddy Narrows, a strait between Canada and the United States. Since 1808, there has been a lighthouse there to guide ships through the waterway. The current one, with distinctive red-and-white stripes, was built in 1858. Photographs and paintings of this lighthouse are frequently reproduced. The 3rd order Fresnel lens is the only 3rd order and one of only eight Fresnel lenses still in use on the Maine Coast.
Huge mistake on my part1 The comment above is the American light. East Quoddy Lighthouse locally known as Head Harbour Light, the East Quoddy Lighthouse stands as it had for many years looking out over the trecherous waters of the Bay Of Fundy.
Although now automated, it once housed the Light Keeper and his family. Accessible only 1 1/2 hours before and 1 hour after low tide, it presented a challenge to all of the occupants and visitors alike. Today it remains a welcome site, or sound depending on the fog, to fishermen returning to port.
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West Quoddy Head in Lubec, Maine is the easternmost point of the contiguous United States and the closest point to Europe from a point in the fifty States. West Quoddy Head overlooks Quoddy Narrows, a strait between Canada and the United States. Since 1808, there has been a lighthouse there to guide ships through the waterway. The current one, with distinctive red-and-white stripes, was built in 1858. Photographs and paintings of this lighthouse are frequently reproduced. The 3rd order Fresnel lens is the only 3rd order and one of only eight Fresnel lenses still in use on the Maine Coast.
Huge mistake on my part1 The comment above is the American light. East Quoddy Lighthouse locally known as Head Harbour
Light, the East Quoddy Lighthouse
stands as it had for many years
looking out over the trecherous
waters of the Bay Of Fundy.
Although now automated, it once
housed the Light Keeper and his
family. Accessible only 1 1/2 hours
before and 1 hour after low tide, it
presented a challenge to all of the
occupants and visitors alike.
Today it remains a welcome site,
or sound depending on the fog,
to fishermen returning to port.
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