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Ashland Breakwater (WI 9)
Built at the end
of very long detached breakwater which creates the sheltered harbor of
Ashland. Accessible only by
boat. There are views from Bayview Park, off US 2 east of downtown.
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Chequamegon Point (1896) (WI 8A)
Located at the western end of Long Island, about 2/3
mile west of LaPointe Light. A Coast Guard helicopter moved the tower
back from the eroding shoreline in 1987. Accessible only by boat;
water taxi service available
in season.
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Chequamegon Point (1987) (WI 8)
This "D9" tower is similar to many others on the Great
Lakes. Built next to the 1895 tower. The photo shows how close the
new light is to the old light.
Photo may be purchased from
Marinas.com |
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La Pointe (WI 7)
Located on Long Island (and a sibling of the
Coney Island Light in New York), in the mouth of Chequamegon Bay
northeast of Washburn. Accessible only by boat;
water taxi service available
in season.
Photo may be purchased from
Marinas.com |
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Gull Island (WI 7G)
July 10, 2007We weren't even supposed to see this light as it wasn't
in any of the indexes generally used. However, as we were running
from the storm (Gale warnings for this evening in Houghton), we went by
it. Thus, this is the best picture I could get.
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Michigan Island
(1857) (WI 6A)
July 10, 2007
The old light is pretty well buried in the trees.
Since this land is now a National Park, it may get worse instead of
better as the years go by.
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Michigan Island
(1906) (WI 6B)
July 10, 2007
This skeletal tower really stands high above the trees.
It's about 100 feet behind the light shown above.
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Raspberry
Island (WI 5)
July 10, 2007This light was expanded in fairly short order from a
single keeper, to two keepers, then three keepers. This building is
a substantial rebuild to accommodate the 3 keepers.
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Outer Island (WI 4)
July 8, 2007You really can't get here without a boat. We got
this shot from the GLLKA Lake Superior Cruise. The weather was
pretty cold (not surprising as the water was 52º.)
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Devils Island (WI 3)
July 8, 2007The tradition on why this is called Devil's Island is
unclear. The story that made sense to me was that the wind going
through the wave caves made it sound like the devil was visiting.
The building in the middle is the fog horn, the tower is a radio
direction beacon.
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Sand Island (WI 2)
July 8, 2007While this point is clearly all rocks, there are clear
sandy beaches both east and west of this point. It's from those
beaches that the island got its name.
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Superior South Breakwater
(WI 1)
July 8, 2007
latitude 46° 42' 36.5" N longitude 92° 0'
22.8" W
For many years, this was actually the departure point for
the bulk of the Coal and Ore. That changed when Duluth put in the
canal.
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Minnesota Point (ruins) (MN 8)
July 8, 2007Heavily over run by trees, we were just able to get a
glimpse of this tower as our boat cruised from Superior (WI) to Duluth.
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Duluth North Pier (MN 5)
July 9, 2007
latitude 46° 46' 51.4" N longitude 92° 5'
17.9" W
This sunrise photo has been digitally edited so you can
see both the light and the clouds. It was a beautiful sunrise, but
with the sun right behind the light, the foreground was very dark.
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Outer Duluth South Breakwater Inner (MN 7)
July 9, 2007
latitude 46° 46' 43.8" N longitude 92° 5'
29.9" W
This light is right next to the bridge, so I took this
photo from across the canal.
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Duluth South Breakwater (MN 6)
July 9, 2007
lat. 46° 46' 48.4" N longitude 92° 5' 16" W
This looks very similar to the
Superior light. That's probably
intentional as the canal was cut to compete with Superior.
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Two Harbors East Breakwater (MN 4)
June 9, 2007
latitude 47° 0' 38.2" N longitude 91° 40'
10.4" W
Note that this light is a [probably the shortest known]
range light. The rear range is in the center of the lantern house.
The front range is about a meter in front of it.
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Two Harbors (MN 3)
June 9, 2007
latitude 47° 0' 50.4" N longitude 91° 39'
50.1" W
Our captain on the Keewenau Star had great fun trying to
get us photos of this light. He first did a 360 around the harbor
behind the breakwater (above), then took us out front and did a full 720
showing us every angle possible. Looks to me like he found a good
one.
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Split Rock
(MN 2)
June 9, 2009
latitude 47° 11' 60" N longitude 91° 22' 0.9"
W
We first viewed this light from the water, then "up top", then I walked
down to the bottom to get the classic shot.
The funny thing about
this light is that it really isn't located at Split Rock, this is "Stony
Point". But the intention was to build it at Split Rock, so thus
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Grand Marais (MN 1)
The tower is located at the end of the eastern
harbor breakwater, off US 61 in Grand Marais; this breakwater is not
walkable. The keeper's house is onshore at the end of Broadway.
Photo may be purchased from
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