Point Blunt Coast Guard Light Station
Point Blunt Light is a lighthouse on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay, California.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Building
- Description: lighthouse in California, United States
- Also known as: “Point Blunt Light” and “Point Blunt Lighthouse”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Angel Island and Mount Caroline Livermore.
Angel Island
Photo: Richard N Horne, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Angel Island is a historic immigration station and military post turned state park in the San Francisco Bay. Sometimes considered the Ellis Island of the west coast, Angel Island was for decades the first place that many immigrants to the United States arrived, especially coming from East Asia.
Mount Caroline Livermore
Peak
Photo: Dargasea, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mount Caroline Livermore is the high point of Angel Island, in Angel Island State Park, near the city of Tiburon in the San Francisco Bay, in the U.S. state of California.
Angel Island Immigration Station
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Angel Island Immigration Station was an immigration station in San Francisco Bay which operated from January 21, 1910, to November 5, 1940, where immigrants entering the United States were detained and interrogated. Angel Island Immigration Station is situated 1¼ miles north of Point Blunt Coast Guard Light Station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Belvedere Tiburon and Tiburon.
Belvedere Tiburon
Village
Belvedere is a residential incorporated city located on the San Francisco Bay in Marin County, California, United States. Consisting of two islands and a lagoon, it is connected to the Tiburon Peninsula by two causeways. Belvedere Tiburon is situated 2½ miles west of Point Blunt Coast Guard Light Station.
Tiburon
Photo: Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tiburon is a small historic town in California's Marin County, located across the bay from San Francisco. Tiburon's Main Street has been preserved as it was when the town was a Gold Rush train town and lumber yard.
Fisherman’s Wharf
Photo: Miskatonic, CC BY-SA 3.0.
San Francisco's most popular destination among travelers, Fisherman's Wharf is the tourist center of the city. Its historic waterfront, once the hub of the city's fishing fleet, is still famous for the depth and variety of its harvest and for having some of the best seafood restaurants in the city, with scenic vistas over San Francisco Bay and Alcatraz Island.
Point Blunt Coast Guard Light Station
- Category: lighthouse
- Location: Marin County, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.85325° or 37° 51′ 12″ northLongitude
-122.41924° or 122° 25′ 9″ westElevation
240 feet (73 metres)ICAO airport code
K91QOpen location code
849VVH3J+78OpenStreetMap ID
way 288802544OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesGeoNames ID
6301573Wikidata ID
Q7207964
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In Other Languages
“Point Blunt Coast Guard Light Station” goes by many names.
- French: “phare de Point Blunt”
- French: “Phare de Point Blunt”
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