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The Fire Island Lighthouse is a visible landmark on the
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, in southern Suffolk County,
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on the western end of
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, a
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off the southern coast of
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.
returned the Fire Island Lighthouse to an active aid to navigation. On February 22, 2006, the light became a private aid to navigation. It continues to be on the nautical charts, but is operated and maintained by the Fire Island Lighthouse Preservation Society and not the USCG. It was added to the
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in 1981 and a boundary increase for the national
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occurred in 2010. ''See also:'' ''See also:'' It is listed as Fire Island Light, number 695, in the USCG light lists. When the lighthouse was built it was on the edge of
Fire Island Inlet Fire Island Inlet is an inlet on the south shore of Long Island, New York. It connects the Great South Bay with the Atlantic Ocean, passing between Robert Moses State Park (the western end of Fire Island) on the south and Oak Beach and Captre ...
and marked the western end of Fire Island. However Fire Island has extended itself through accumulating sand so that the lighthouse is now nearly from the western end of the island at Democrat Point. The Archives Center at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History has a collection (#1055) of souvenir
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s of lighthouses and has digitized 272 of these and made them available online. These include postcards of Fire Island LightSmithsonian lighthouse postcards
/ref> with links to customized nautical charts provided by National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. The lighthouse celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2008, the same year as the 100th anniversary of Robert Moses State Park.


Access

The lighthouse can be accessed by a short walk from Robert Moses State Park – Field 5. It is open to the public daily. Tower tours are available for a small fee.


In popular culture

From 1970 to 1975, the lighthouse and its surrounding area were seen in the opening and closing credits sequences of the CBS television soap opera ''
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''. Some of the final episode of season 1 of TV show ''
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'' was filmed at Fire Island Lighthouse and surrounding buildings. ''
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'' also included some filming on the island in the immediate vicinity of the lighthouse. A 1999
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TV series featuring
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and called ''Fire Island'' included filming of the lighthouse. The 2008 movie "
What Happens in Vegas ''What Happens in Vegas'' is a 2008 American romantic comedy film directed by Tom Vaughan and written by Dana Fox. It stars Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher as a couple who get married and win a casino jackpot prize during a drunken night in La ...
" with Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher featured the lighthouse as the Diaz character's favorite place.


See also

* List of lighthouses in the United States – New York


References


External links

*
Fire Island Lighthouse Preservation Society



Fire Island Lighthouse at Lighthousefriends.com
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