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Ilha Rasa Lighthouse

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of Portugal decided on the construction of the lighthouse on the island and the works began in 1819, employing prisoners as the workforce, under the supervision of the engineer João de Souza Pacheco Leitão. The tower was completed in 1825, but its inauguration was postponed because Argentine pirates
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The lighthouse was lit on July 31, 1829. It is a 3-story square prism stone building surmounted by a cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern. The tower, painted in white with brown trim, is 26 metres (85 ft) high and the walls are 1.3 metres (4.3 ft) thick. The lantern was equipped with
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visible up to 51 nautical miles (94 km; 59 mi) for the white light and 45 nautical miles (83 km; 52 mi) for that red. The lighthouse is managed by the
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oil. On December 2, 1883, a new first-order Doppler lens, manufactured by Lepaute et Sautter & Lemonnier and installed by engineer Louis Belenot, was inaugurated.
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Before the construction of the lighthouse, a fire was lit every night on the summit of Ilha Rasa signaling the entrance to the
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built in 1909. Since 1951 it has operated with electric power supplied by diesel engines. The lighthouse emits
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attacked the ship transporting the optical instruments from France where they had been produced.
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a first-order rotary catoptrics system and three parabolic reflectors lit by 21 lamps burning
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cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern atop a massive square tower
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This article about a Brazilian building or structure is a
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two white alternate flashes and one red every 15 seconds
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and is identified by the country code number BR-2420.
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The lantern is currently equipped with one of the two
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United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
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Centro de Sinalização Náutica Almirante Moraes Rego
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Centro de Sinalização Náutica Almirante Moraes Rego
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Coordinates
23°03′50″S 43°08′45″W / 23.063919°S 43.145920°W / -23.063919; -43.145920
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Characteristic
Portuguese
Guanabara Bay
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Port of Rio de Janeiro
João VI
rapeseed
mesoradial lenses
two white alternate flashes and one red every 15 seconds
Brazilian Navy
List of lighthouses in Brazil



"Lighthouses of Southeastern Brazil"
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


List of Lights, Pub. 110: Greenland, The East Coasts of North and South America (Excluding Continental U.S.A. Except the East Coast of Florida) and the West Indies
List of Lights
United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
"Rasa"
the original
"Rádio Farol Ilha Rasa"

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