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Detroit River Light

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The Detroit River Light, also known as Bar Point Shoal Light, was first established as a lightship in 1875. The current sparkplug lighthouse was built in 1885.Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society, Bar Point Shoal/Detroit River Light ARLHS USA-227.Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society, World List of Lights. It sits in Lake Erie, south of the mouth of the Detroit River, from land and about from the Ambassador Bridge in the Detroit River. It is about from the border with Canada,NOAA Chart 14848 Detroit River Michigan Extension and just under from Put-in-Bay, Ohio.Photo of Detroit River Light. Its original 4th order Fresnel lens is on loan to the Michigan Maritime Museum. Read more on Wikipedia

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