Elbow Reef Lighthouse
Elbow Reef is one of the last operational kerosene-fueled lighthouses in the world. This lighthouse was built in 1862 opened September 1, 1863 it is striped horizontally red and white.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lighthouse
- Description: lighthouse in the Bahamas
- Also known as: “Elbow Cay lighthouse”, “Elbow Cay Lighthouse”, “Elbow Reef Light”, “Great Abaco Lighthouse”, and “Hope Town Lighthouse”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Elbow Cay and Anna Cay.
Elbow Cay
Photo: Rüdiger Stehn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Elbow Cay is a five-mile-long cay in the Abaco Islands of The Bahamas. Originally populated by British loyalists fleeing the newly independent United States of America in 1785, it has survived on fishing, boat building, and salvage.
Anna Cay
Islet
Anna's Cay is a small cay in the Abaco chain of the Bahamas. It resides at the entrance to the North End public dock on Elbow Cay near Hopetown. The cay is home to one residence which is colored pink.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Marsh Harbour.
Marsh Harbour
Town
Marsh Harbour is a town in Abaco Islands, Bahamas, with a population of 6,283 as of 2012. The settlement lies on a peninsula just off the Great Abaco Highway, which runs south through Great Abaco to Cherokee Point and Little Harbour. Marsh Harbour is situated 6 miles west of Elbow Reef Lighthouse.
Elbow Reef Lighthouse
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: Hope Town, Bahamas, Caribbean, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From French to Swedish—“Elbow Reef Lighthouse” goes by many names.
- French: “phare d’Elbow Cay”
- French: “Phare d’Elbow Cay”
- German: “Elbow Cay Lighthouse”
- German: “Elbow Reef Lighthouse”
- German: “Hopetown Lighthouse”
- Spanish: “Faro del Cayo Elbow”
- Swedish: “Elbow Cay fyr”
Localities in the Area
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