Type:
Year Established:
1921
Existing:
Yes
Download:
Pacific Reef FL 1970 REE.jpg (8.51 MB)
File Type:
jpg (image/jpeg)
Photo Date:
1970
Photo Credit:
Ralph Eshelman
Photo Courtesy of:
US Lighthouse Society Archives
Collection / Donor:
LOCATION
U.S. State:
Florida
Country:
United States
OWNER & ACCESS
Open to Public:
No
STRUCTURE
Fog Signal Building?:
No
Keeper's Quarters?:
No
OPTICS
Private Aid:
No
USCG Access to Optics:
No
Entered by:
Entered Date:
Jul 18, 2018
The light at Pacific Reef is an Unmanned Aid to Navigation that marks a reef at the northern end of the Florida reef line and is in Biscayne National Park. Built in 1921 it, along with the Molasses Reef Light, was one of the first two, of seven, screw-pile lights marking localized hazards along the Florida reef line that were built between 1921 and 1935. The tower remains on Pacific Reef, but the original lantern room was removed and placed in Founders Park in Islamorada and a modern optic, flashing white every 4 seconds, was placed on the platform.
It has a square skeletal pyramidal upper structure on screw-pile foundation. The tower at Pacific Reef is 45’ tall. Reports on the history and original characteristics of these lights are sketchy, but it appears that the unmanned lights were originally fitted with a fourth-order Fresnel Lens.