Kaavi Lighthouse

Kaavi Lighthouse
Kaavi tuletorn

Location	Kaavi Torgu Parish Estonia
Coordinates	57.9822°N 22.195333°E / 57.9822; 22.195333
Tower
Constructed	1954
Construction	concrete tower
Height	15 metres (49 ft)
Shape	square trocated pyramidal tower with balcony and no lantern
Markings	brown tower with a white horizontal band
Power source	aerothermal solar panel, solar power
Light
Focal height	20 metres (66 ft)
Range	9 nautical miles (17 km; 10 mi) 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) since 1966
Characteristic	Fl W 2.5 s.[1]
Estonia no.	EVA 943[2]

Kaavi Lighthouse (Estonian: Kaavi Tuletorn) is a lighthouse located in Sõrve Peninsula, in the village of Kaavi, Torgu Parish, on the island of Saaremaa, in Estonia.

The lighthouse is a concrete square tower, with a gallery but no lantern, mounted on a concrete square block. The lighthouse is painted brown with a broad white horizontal band in the centre of the structure.[3] The lighthouse's location is on the southeast side of the Sõrve Peninsula, which is about four kilometres east of Mäebe.[4]

See also

• List of lighthouses in Estonia

References

1. Kaavi Lighthouse Archived 22 November 2015 at the Wayback Machine Estonian Lighthouse Society
2. Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Southwestern Estonia". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
3. "Photograph Of The Lighthouse". Panoramio. Archived from the original on 30 January 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
4. Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Southwestern Estonia". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 25 September 2015.

External links

• "Navigatsioonimärgi 943, Kaavi tuletorn andmed". Navigatsioonimärkide andmekogu (in Estonian). 15 August 2016. Archived from the original on 15 August 2016. Retrieved 7 May 2019.