Fourteen Foot Bank Light
Fourteen Foot Bank Light is a lighthouse in the Delaware Bay near Bowers Beach, Delaware. Built in 1885–1886 at the south end of Joe Flogger Shoal, it was the first lighthouse to be built using a pneumatic caisson.- Type: Lighthouse
- Description: lighthouse in Delaware, United States
- Also known as: “Fourteen Foot Bank Lighthouse”
Fourteen Foot Bank Light
- Categories: building, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Delaware, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.04825° or 39° 2′ 54″ north
Longitude
-75.18227° or 75° 10′ 56″ west
Height
59 feet (18 metres)
Open location code
87F62RX9+83
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
building=yes
OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=lighthouse
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In Other Languages
From French to Russian—“Fourteen Foot Bank Light” goes by many names.
- French: “phare de Fourteen Foot Bank”
- French: “Phare de Fourteen Foot Bank”
- German: “Fourteen Foot Bank Light”
- Russian: “Маяк Четырнадцать футов”
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