Diamond Head Lighthouse
   HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - Diamond Head Lighthouse
OR:
Diamond Head Lighthouse on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

Diamond Head Lighthouse is a
United States Coast Guard The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is the maritime security, search and rescue, and law enforcement service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the country's eight uniformed services. The service is a maritime, military, mu ...
facility located on Diamond Head in
Honolulu Honolulu (; ) is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, which is in the Pacific Ocean. It is an unincorporated county seat of the consolidated City and County of Honolulu, situated along the southeast coast of the island ...
, on the island of
Oahu Oahu () ( Hawaiian: ''Oʻahu'' ()), also known as "The Gathering Place", is the third-largest of the Hawaiian Islands. It is home to roughly one million people—over two-thirds of the population of the U.S. state of Hawaii. The island of O†...
in the State of
Hawaii Hawaii ( ; haw, Hawaii or ) is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about from the U.S. mainland. It is the only U.S. state outside North America, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only state ...
. The lighthouse was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
in 1980. The Diamond Head Lighthouse was featured on a United States postage stamp in June 2007. In a 2014 interview, 94-year-old veteran Melvin Bell described serving as the radio operator at the Diamond Head station during the Japanese sneak attack on
Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor is an American lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. It was often visited by the Naval fleet of the United States, before it was acquired from the Hawaiian Kingdom by the U.S. with the signing of the R ...
, and the steps he took to warn civilian vessels of the attack. The lighthouse is featured in the music video for Katy Perry's song
Electric Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter that has a property of electric charge. Electricity is related to magnetism, both being part of the phenomenon of electromagnetism, as described by ...
, which is a collaboration between Perry and Pokémon.


See also

*
List of lighthouses in Hawaii This is a list of lighthouses in Hawaii. Fifteen lighthouses in Hawaii are associated with the U.S. Coast Guard. Including minor lights, there are 43 lights in total. Lighthouses Minor Lights There are over 30 "minor lights" in Hawaii, most i ...


References


External links

* Lighthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Hawaii Buildings and structures in Honolulu History of Oahu Lighthouses completed in 1917 1917 establishments in Hawaii National Register of Historic Places in Honolulu {{Honolulu-stub