Ngqura Entrance Range Front Lighthouse
Location & Light Range
About Ngqura Entrance Range Front Lighthouse
This square skeletal tower, built in 2009, guides vessels into the Ngqura port. It stands 18 meters tall with its light at a focal height of 37 meters. The structure is painted with red and white horizontal bands and features a slatted daymark that is orange with a white vertical stripe. Its operational light emits a single red flash every 4 seconds. The lighthouse is situated near the base of the east breakwater, marking the front range of a navigation system.
Why it matters: This lighthouse, as the front marker of a navigational range, is essential for the safe entry of large commercial vessels into the Ngqura deepwater port.
Light & Optic
- Flash Type
- Occulting
- Light Color
- Red
- Interval
- 4s
- Raw Code
- Oc R 4s
- Focal Height
- 37m
- Geographic Range
- 16.6NM
Construction & History
- Year Built
- 2009
References & Identifiers
- Nearest Port
- Coega(1.2 km)
- Admiralty No.
- D6410.6
- NGA No.
- 32106
Tower & Structure
- Tower Height
- 18m
- Tower Shape
- square
- Tower Color
- with red and white horizontal bands and carrying a slatted daymark colored orange with a white vertical stripe
Structure: square skeletal tower painted with red and white horizontal bands and carrying a slatted daymark colored orange with a white vertical stripe
Location
- Country
- 🇿🇦South Africa
- Region
- Eastern Cape
- Sea Region
- Ngqura Entrance, near the base of the east breakwater, guiding vessels into the port.
- Latitude
- -33.7934°
- Longitude
- 25.6960°
Nearby Vessels
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