metal skeletal tower (first) reinforced concrete tower (current)
Height
36 metres (118 ft)
Shape
hexagonal skeletal frame tower with central cylinder and galleries (first) octagonal prism skeletal surmounted by a square tower with two balconies and no lantern (current)
Markings
black tower with white three-tiered top (first) white tower (current)
Light
Focal height
40.8 metres (134 ft)
Lens
Third-order Fresnel lens
Range
17 nautical miles (31 km; 20 mi)
Characteristic
Al WR 10s.(firstl)[1] Fl W 10s. (current)
The Apo Reef Light was a historic lighthouse built on Bajo Apo Island in Apo Reef Natural Park.[2][3] The park is located in the middle of Mindoro Strait, west of the province of Occidental Mindoro, in the Philippines. The station was established to warn ships of the dangerous shallow reefs in that part of the strait.
The original tower was the tallest lighthouse tower ever erected in the Philippines. The 118-ft (36.0-m) tall structure was an iron skeletal tower with a central cylinder, reinforced by a hexagonal frame and topped with the lantern room with two levels of gallery.
^U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office,"List of Lights 1920, Volume II", pg.74. Washington Government Printing Office, 1920.
^Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of the Philippines: Palawan". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
^Apo Island (Mindoro Light) Archived 2012-03-24 at the Wayback Machine. World List of Lights – Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society. Retrieved on 2010-06-12.
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