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Bonavista Lighthouse
Ref.#99 9798 ~ Bonavista Lighthouse,Newfoundland
Upon sighting land after his 1497 transatlantic voyage John Cabot, an Italian navigator and explorer, declared "O Buona Vista!", and that is how North America was rediscovered and how Cape Bonavista received its name. Sixteen Argand lamps and reflectors were mounted on the lighting apparatus, which alternate every two minutes a red and white light. The 1841 lighthouse itself echoed this red and white theme, being painted in vertical red and white stripes. Tours of the lighthouse are available and display an ingenious working set of lamps and reflectors that is slowly revolved by a clockwork mechanism powered by counterweights. The tower in back is a modern update to the older mechanisms. The fence in the foreground was a corral for livestock the lightkeeper needed in this remote spot.
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