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Lighthouse Cape Mudge |
Lighthouse Pine Island |
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Built in the late 1800s and 1900s, lighthouses along the
Inside Passage have provided protection, information and
aid to mariners in distress for many decades. Alas,
today many lights have been automated, and while they
still provide navigation and weather information, they
no longer offer human assessment or assistance in dire
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- As cruise ships pass under
Lions Gate Bridge, which links Vancouver with
the North Shore, and enter the waters of the Inside
Passage, they pass one of the first lighthouses of
the trip at Point Atkinson
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The
Cape Mudge Light, established in 1898 at the tip of
Quadra Island, still signals the start of the narrow,
treacherous tidal area.
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The Pulteney Point Light is situated on the north tip
of Malcolm Island, at the lower end of Queen Charlotte
Strait. Scarlet Point and Pine Island Lights mark the
northern end of the Strait. Further north, Egg Island
Light heralds the beginning of Queen Charlotte Sound,
difficult waters for small craft.
- Boat Bluff Light on the south end of Sarah Island is
one of the most picturesque lighthouses of the Inside
Passage. It marks Finlayson Channel to the right and
Tolmie Channel to the left. Cone Island with its
easy-to-identify shape is visible first when sailing
north. Erected in 1907, this lighthouse was de-manned in
1986 as part of a cost-cutting initiative.
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Green Island Light, built on Dundas Island in 1906, is
the last light in Canadian waters. On the other side of
the border is Tree Point Light on the mainland.
- Guard Island Lighthouse is just north and across from
Ketchikan.
- Five Finger Light, north
of Petersburg, was built in 1902 to aid boats
heading north to the gold fields. It was Alaska’s
first manned lighthouse and the last to be automated
in 1984. This lighthouse also has the distinction of
being the setting for a murder in Alaska mystery
writer Sue Henry’s “Murder at Five Finger Light.”
- Eldred Rock Lighthouse toward the northern reach of
Lynn Canal is an unusual octagonal structure, somewhat
reminiscent of Russian architecture found further north
in Alaska.
- The Cape Spencer Light marks
the southwestern tip of Glacier Bay National Park and
the end of the sheltered waters of the Inside Passage.
- Ocean Cape Light on the
southern tip of Yukutat Bay, heralds the approach into
Hubbard Glacier.
- Ships heading further north to
Prince William Sound will pass lights at Cape St.
Elias and Cape Hinchinbrook.
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