Island View Channel Range Front Lighthouse
Location & Light Range
About Island View Channel Range Front Lighthouse
This square skeletal steel tower stands 20 meters tall in Durban harbor's oil terminal. Painted black and featuring a yellow triangular daymark pointing upwards, its focal height reaches 22 meters. The light displays a white flash every 3 seconds and has a geographic range of 13.6 nautical miles. It operates as the front portion of a range system, intended to guide vessels along a specific alignment. The tower is located 2.3 kilometers from the nearest port of Durban.
Why it matters: This front range light is critical for the safe navigation of vessels through the specific channel within Durban harbor, particularly those accessing the oil terminal.
Light & Optic
- Flash Type
- Flashing
- Light Color
- White
- Interval
- 3s
- Raw Code
- Fl W 3s
- Focal Height
- 22m
- Geographic Range
- 13.6NM
Location
- City
- Durban
- Country
- 🇿🇦South Africa
- Region
- KwaZulu-Natal
- Sea Region
- Durban harbor, within an oil terminal
- Latitude
- -29.8906°
- Longitude
- 31.0262°
Nearby Vessels
Tower & Structure
- Tower Height
- 20m
- Tower Shape
- square
- Tower Color
- black with a yellow triangular daymark
- Material
- steel
Structure: square skeletal tower, painted black and carrying a yellow triangular daymark, point up
References & Identifiers
- Nearest Port
- Durban(2.3 km)
- Admiralty No.
- D6475
- NGA No.
- 31992
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خطّط رحلاتك قرب South Africa، وشاهد السفن المجاورة في الوقت الفعلي، واستكشف أكثر من 14,900 معلَم ملاحي في التطبيق.