Owls Head Light Station
The Owls Head Light is an active aid to navigation located at the entrance of Rockland Harbor on western Penobscot Bay in the town of Owls Head, Knox County, Maine.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: JT de Fife, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Mainiac, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Lighthouse
- Description: lighthouse in Maine, United States
- Also known as: “Owl’s Head Light”, “Owl’s Head Light Station”, “Owl’s Head Lighthouse”, “Owls Head Light”, and “Owls Head Lighthouse”
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Rockland Breakwater Light and Rockland Breakwater.
Rockland Breakwater Light
Lighthouse
Photo: Aude, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Rockland Harbor Breakwater Light is a historic lighthouse complex at the end of the Rockland Breakwater in the harbor of Rockland, Maine. Replacing a light station at Jameson Point, the light was established in 1902, about two years after completion of the breakwater. Rockland Breakwater Light is situated 2 miles northwest of Owls Head Light Station.
Rockland Breakwater
Breakwater
Photo: Tania Dey PhD, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Rockland Breakwater is a breakwater sheltering the harbor of Rockland, Maine. More than 4,000 feet long, it was built in the 1890s by the United States Army Corps of Engineers out of locally quarried granite to improve the harbor's ability to shelter ships from coastal storms. Rockland Breakwater is situated 2 miles northwest of Owls Head Light Station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Owls Head and Rockland.
Owls Head
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Owls Head is a town in Knox County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,504 at the 2020 census. A resort and fishing area, the community is home to the Knox County Regional Airport. It includes the village of Ash Point.
Rockland
Photo: Hannahjones, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rockland is a city in Maine that has witnessed a resurgence. Once boarded up shops are now colorfully decorated and the Farnsworth Art Museum and Wyeth Center offer a diverse Maine artisan collection.
Glen Cove
Neighborhood
Glen Cove is an unincorporated village within the town of Rockport in Knox County, Maine, United States. The community is located on U.S. Route 1 and Clam Cove, an arm of the Penobscot Bay, 2.2 miles north of Rockland. Glen Cove is situated 4 miles northwest of Owls Head Light Station.
Owls Head Light Station
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: Town of Owls Head, Knox County, Mid Coast, Maine, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
44.0922° or 44° 5′ 32″ northLongitude
-69.04407° or 69° 2′ 39″ westElevation
52 feet (16 metres)Open location code
87PG3XR4+V9OpenStreetMap ID
way 426617214OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=lighthouse
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In Other Languages
From French to Russian—“Owls Head Light Station” goes by many names.
- French: “Phare d’Owls Head”
- French: “phare de Owls Head”
- Russian: “Маяк Оулс Хэд”
- Russian: “Маяк Оулс-Хед”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Owls Head Light Station”. Photo: JT de Fife, CC BY-SA 4.0.