Mount Desert Light
Mount Desert Light is a lighthouse on Mount Desert Rock, a small island about 18 nautical miles south of Mount Desert Island, in the U.S. state of Maine.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Lighthouse
- Description: lighthouse in Maine, United States
- Also known as: “Mount Desert Lighthouse” and “Mount Desert Rock Light”
Mount Desert Light
- Categories: heritage site, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Maine, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.96862° or 43° 58′ 7″ north
Longitude
-68.12834° or 68° 7′ 42″ west
Inception
1847
Height
75 feet (23 metres)
Open location code
87MHXV9C+CM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
building=tower
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=heritage
OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=lighthouse
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From French to Russian—“Mount Desert Light” goes by many names.
- French: “phare des Monts Déserts”
- French: “Phare des Monts Déserts”
- German: “Mount Desert Light”
- Russian: “Маяк Маунт Дезерт”
- Russian: “Маяк Маунт-Дезерт”
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