Long Beach Light also known as the Long Beach Harbor Light, is a
lighthouse on
Long Beach
Long Beach is a city in Los Angeles County, California. It is the 42nd-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 466,742 as of 2020. A charter city, Long Beach is the seventh-most populous city in California.
Incorporate ...
Harbor in
California
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.
History
Long Beach Harbor Light looks different from a traditional lighthouse. Labeled the "robot light" when established in 1949, it is completely automated and was the forerunner of the new version of 20th-century lighthouses on America's West Coast. The high white, rectangular tower with a columnar base, features a airway-type beacon and is controlled by the
ANRAC system from the
Los Angeles Harbor Light. The three-story facility, of monolithic design, is built of concrete supported on six cement columns cast into six pockets of a
crib. It had dual tone fog signals and a radio beacon.
In its commanding position in
San Pedro's middle
breakwater, the lighthouse was considered an uncanny mechanical wonder when first established. Later, another navigation light in the Long Beach area was erected atop the
pilot station
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Geography
Pilot Station is located at (61.936050, -162.883403), on the northern bank of t ...
at the Port of Long Beach in 1968. Marking the harbor entrance channel, the light is accompanied by one of the
United States Coast Guard
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's radar scanners.
This lighthouse is inaccessible to the public but can be viewed from East Ocean Boulevard at Long Beach Harbor.
See also
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List of lighthouses in the United States
This is a list of lighthouses in the United States. The United States has had approximately a thousand lights as well as light towers, range lights, and pier head lights. Michigan has the most lights of any state with over 150 past and present l ...
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San Pedro Bay (California)
San Pedro Bay is an inlet on the Pacific Ocean coast of southern California, United States. It is the site of the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach, which together form the fifth-busiest port facility in the world (behind the ports o ...
References
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Lighthouses completed in 1949
Lighthouses in Los Angeles County, California
Buildings and structures in Long Beach, California
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