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Name: Buck Island Light  

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Nearest Town or City:
St. Croix, , Virgin Islands (U.S.)

Location: Two miles south of St. Thomas, near the port of Charlotte Amalie.


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Photo: Joost Keesing
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Managing Organization:
Buck Island National Wildlife Refuge

Telephone: 809-773-4554

Contact Address Information:
Buck Island national Wildlife Refuge
3013 Estate Golden Rock Ste #137
Christiansted, St. Criox
, 00820, Virgin Islands (U.S.)

Notes:
This station was designed and built by the Danish government. It was replaced by a modern steel tower in the mid-1990s.

Tower Height: 25

Description of Tower: White, pyramidal square steel tower with black lantern.

Listed on the Lighthouse Digest Doomsday List of endangered lighthouses.

This light is not operational

Date Established: 1915

Date Present Tower Built: 1915

Date Deactivated: Mid-1990s

Current Use: Abandoned.

Open To Public? No.


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