The Lighthouse Directory is a personal research project
that is based on the use of Internet resources. Armed with Google's search
engine and translator and the maps of Google and Bing,
I explore the Web looking for knowledge about lighthouses around the world.
This page includes some of the links I've found to be most useful.
Basic references
- The Online List of Lights is a huge, invaluable database maintained by Alexander Trabas in Germany. It has entries for every light in the Admiralty List of Lights and Fog Signals with photos for many of them.
- The Lighthouse
Explorer Database, maintained by Lighthouse
Digest magazine, contains a wealth of information on lighthouses around the world.
- The ARLHS World List of
Lights, maintained by the Amateur
Radio Lighthouse Society (ARLHS), is a listing of lighthouses covering all countries, although it does not provide any descriptive
information. The ARLHS numbers in the Directory come from this source.
- The NGA List of Lights, an official light list describing navigational
aids in all countries except the U.S., is published in seven volumes
by the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). Select
the desired volume and click on "View" to download all or parts
of each volume in PDF format.
- The U.S. Coast Guard Light List, covering lights of the U.S.
and its territories, is also published in seven volumes and can be downloaded
in PDF format. Click on any of the Coast Guard Districts
shown on the map to download the list for that area.
- For Canada, the List
of Lights, Buoys, and Fog Signals, published in four volumes
by Fisheries and Oceans Canada and posted in a large number of short sections, can be downloaded in PDF or viewed online.
- The British Admiralty List of Lights (ALL) is a traditional
reference for mariners worldwide. Unfortunately, the ALL cannot be viewed
online or downloaded, although the Admiralty's weekly Notices
to Mariners can be searched for information on recent changes
to lights.
- The U.S. Lighthouse Society has abstracted information from historical U.S. light lists.
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Pottawatomie Light, Rock Island, June 2013
Flickr Creative Commons photo by Ben and Clare
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