La Carrière Lighthouse
Location & Light Range
About La Carrière Lighthouse
This skeletal steel tower stands 20 meters tall on a bluff overlooking Pointe à Pierre, a town dominated by the Petroprin oil refinery. Its focal height reaches 71 meters, providing a geographic range of 21.5 nautical miles. The tower is red with a yellow vertical stripe and is mounted on a building. It emits a white flash every 2.5 seconds. The lighthouse is located approximately 0.9 kilometers from the nearest port at Pointe à Pierre. It has been operational and serving as a navigational aid.
Why it matters: La Carrière lighthouse is important for guiding vessels serving the Petroprin oil refinery, facilitating the safe movement of tankers and cargo ships through industrial waters.
Light & Optic
- Flash Type
- Flashing
- Light Color
- White
- Interval
- 2.5s
- Raw Code
- Fl W 2.5s
- Focal Height
- 71m
- Geographic Range
- 21.5NM
Location
- Country
- 🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago
- Region
- Couva-Tabaquite-Talparo
- Sea Region
- high on a bluff overlooking Pointe à Pierre, a town surrounding the Petroprin oil refinery
- Latitude
- 10.3258°
- Longitude
- -61.4598°
Nearby Vessels
Tower & Structure
- Tower Height
- 20m
- Tower Shape
- skeletal
- Tower Color
- red with a yellow vertical stripe
- Material
- steel
Structure: skeletal tower mounted on a building and carrying a daymark painted red with a yellow vertical stripe
References & Identifiers
- Nearest Port
- Pointe a Pierre(0.9 km)
- Admiralty No.
- J5895
- NGA No.
- 16152
اعثر على منارة La Carrière على الخريطة البحرية المباشرة
خطّط رحلاتك قرب Trinidad and Tobago، وشاهد السفن المجاورة في الوقت الفعلي، واستكشف أكثر من 14,900 معلَم ملاحي في التطبيق.