Georgetown Range Rear Lighthouse

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Chance Brothers Lighthouse Chance Brothers Lighthouse
  • Date of lens manufacture
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  • Date of lighthouse construction
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  • Country

    Guyana

  • Commissioning body
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  • Order of lens
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  • Fixed or revolving lens
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  • Active/Inactive

    Active

  • Describe the character of light

    Q W 1.5s

  • Describe the lighthouses daymarks

    17 m (56 ft) skeletal tower, painted white, mounted on a square platform supported by piles.

  • Which aspects of the lighthouse (other than the lens) were manufactured by Chance brothers
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  • Describe the history of the lighthouse

    Date unknown. Active; focal plane 17 m (56 ft); white flash every 5 s. 17 m (56 ft) skeletal tower, painted white, mounted on a square platform supported by piles. The front range tower has a focal plane of only 8 m (26 ft). Located on the west side of the entrance to the Demerara River. Accessible only by boat. Site open, tower closed.

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  • Current management body/ ports authority

    Guyana Transport and Harbours Department

  • Historical preservation societies/manager/operator
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  • Is the site vulnerable to coastal erosion?
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  • Have you experienced any affects of climate change on the lighthouse?
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  • Observations on the condition of the lighthouse?
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  • Is the site open/closed to the public

    Open

  • Is the tower open/closed to the public

    Closed

  • Latitude and Longitude

    Longitude -58.184444, Latitude 6.819333

  • On-site bookable accommodation available
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  • Associated web addresses
  • Other details

    Admiralty J6843.1; NGA 17300.

  • Which resources did you use to research this lighthouses?
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In the 1800s, Chance Brothers & Co glassworks in Smethwick began making the hi-tech lenses that lighthouses use to warn ships of dangerous locations. By 1951, over 2,500 lighthouses around the world were fitted with a Chance lens.

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