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Long Beach Harbor, California
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SG on white rectangular tower on building on columnar base
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42 feet, 50 feet above sea level
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20 nm
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Flashing White 5s Emergency light of reduced intensity when main light is extinguished HORN: 1 blast ev 30s (3s bl) Operates continuously
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also known as the Long Beach Harbor Light is a
Lighthouse on
Long Beach Harbor in
California .
Long Beach Harbor Light looks different from a traditional lighthouse. Labeled the "robot light" when established in 1949, it is completely automated and was the forerunner of the new version of 20th-century lighthouses on America's West Coast. The 42-foot high white, rectangular tower with a columnar base, features a 36 inch airway-type beacon and is controlled by the
ANRAC system from
Los Angeles Lighthouse . The three-story facility, of monolithic design, is built of concrete supported on six cement columns cast into six pockets of a
Crib . In its commanding position in
San Pedro 's middle
Breakwater , the lighthouse was considered an uncanny mechanical wonder when first established, it no longer gets the "ooh"s and "ahhh"s it was once accorded. Later, another navigation light in the Long Beach area was erected atop the pilot station at the Port of Long Beach in 1968. Marking the harbor entrance channel, the light is accompanied by one of the
United States Coast Guard 's radar scanners.
USCG site
