An Entity of Type: tower, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Plumb Point Lighthouse is an active 19th century heritage lighthouse, located on the Palisadoes a narrow peninsular that connects Port Royal to the mainland. The light helps guide shipping into Kingston Harbour. Built in 1853 it is claimed that the light at the lighthouse has gone out only once since then, during the 1907 earthquake. The 70 feet (21 m) stone and cast iron tower with lantern and gallery shows a white light visible for about 40 km (25 mi) over the entrance of the eastern navigable channel and a red light over the south channel which is visible for 20 km (12 mi).

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Plumb Point Lighthouse is an active 19th century heritage lighthouse, located on the Palisadoes a narrow peninsular that connects Port Royal to the mainland. The light helps guide shipping into Kingston Harbour. Built in 1853 it is claimed that the light at the lighthouse has gone out only once since then, during the 1907 earthquake. The 70 feet (21 m) stone and cast iron tower with lantern and gallery shows a white light visible for about 40 km (25 mi) over the entrance of the eastern navigable channel and a red light over the south channel which is visible for 20 km (12 mi). The entire lighthouse is painted white and is in the historic Port Royal Protected Area, which the government hopes to develop as a tourist attraction. It is positioned about 8 km (5.0 mi) east of Port Royal and the entrance to Kingston Harbour near Norman Manley International Airport. It is maintained by the Port Authority of Jamaica, an agency of the Ministry of Transport and Works. (en)
  • Le phare de Plumb Point est un phare situé sur le tombolo de (en) dans la Paroisse de Saint Andrew (Comté de Surrey), en Jamaïque. Ce phare est géré par l'Autorité portuaire de la Jamaïque , une agence du Ministère des Transports . Ce phare est inscrit à la liste des sites du patrimoine national en Jamaïque par le (en). (fr)
dbo:buildingEndDate
  • 1853
dbo:height
  • 21.000000 (xsd:double)
dbo:location
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 23792612 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 3569 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1054022485 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:caption
  • Plumb Point Lighthouse from the NE. (en)
dbp:characteristic
  • Fl WR 9s. (en)
dbp:construction
  • lower half stone and upper half cast iron (en)
dbp:foundation
  • concrete (en)
dbp:imageName
  • Pumb Point Lighthouse from NE closeup.jpg (en)
dbp:location
  • dbr:Jamaica
  • St Andrew (en)
  • Great Plumb Point (en)
  • Palisadoes Peninsula (en)
dbp:marking
  • white tower, red lantern roof (en)
dbp:shape
  • two stage tapered cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dbp:yearbuilt
  • 1853 (xsd:integer)
dct:subject
georss:point
  • 17.9286656 -76.778217
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Le phare de Plumb Point est un phare situé sur le tombolo de (en) dans la Paroisse de Saint Andrew (Comté de Surrey), en Jamaïque. Ce phare est géré par l'Autorité portuaire de la Jamaïque , une agence du Ministère des Transports . Ce phare est inscrit à la liste des sites du patrimoine national en Jamaïque par le (en). (fr)
  • Plumb Point Lighthouse is an active 19th century heritage lighthouse, located on the Palisadoes a narrow peninsular that connects Port Royal to the mainland. The light helps guide shipping into Kingston Harbour. Built in 1853 it is claimed that the light at the lighthouse has gone out only once since then, during the 1907 earthquake. The 70 feet (21 m) stone and cast iron tower with lantern and gallery shows a white light visible for about 40 km (25 mi) over the entrance of the eastern navigable channel and a red light over the south channel which is visible for 20 km (12 mi). (en)
rdfs:label
  • Phare de Plumb Point (fr)
  • Plumb Point Lighthouse (en)
owl:sameAs
geo:geometry
  • POINT(-76.778213500977 17.928665161133)
geo:lat
  • 17.928665 (xsd:float)
geo:long
  • -76.778214 (xsd:float)
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License