Baccalieu Island

Baccalieu Island Lighthouse
North Point
Location	Baccalieu Island; Avalon Peninsula; Newfoundland and Labrador ; Canada
Coordinates	48°08′59″N 52°47′54″W / 48.149849°N 52.798201°W
Tower
Constructed	1859 (first)
Construction	brick tower covered by iron plates since 1893 with balcony and lantern (first); steel skeletal tower (current)
Height	11 metres (36 ft) (first); 13.5 metres (44 ft) (current)
Shape	cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern (first); triangular tower (current)
Markings	rusty colour tower (first); white tower (current)
Power source	solar power
Operator	Baccalieu Island Ecological Reserve
Light
First lit	1990s (current)
Deactivated	1990s (first)
Focal height	166 metres (545 ft) (current)
Range	7 nmi (13 km; 8.1 mi)
Characteristic	Fl W 6s.

Baccalieu Island
	Baccalieu Island as seen from Avalon Peninsula
	Baccalieu Island Location of Baccalieu Island in Newfoundland
Geography
Coordinates	48°07′49″N 52°48′05″W / 48.13028°N 52.80139°W
Area	5 km2 (1.9 sq mi)
Highest elevation	137 m (449 ft)
Highest point
Administration
	Canada
Province	Newfoundland and Labrador
Demographics
Population	0

Baccalieu Island or Bacalhoo Island^[1] (/ˌbækəˈluː/)^[1] is a 5 km² uninhabited island at the northern extremities of Conception Bay in Subdivision 1G, near the community of Red Head Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It is separated from the island of Newfoundland by Baccalieu Tickle, a small strait and an abundant fishing ground. The island has some trees but is mostly rocky.

The name Baccalieu is derived either from the Portuguese bacalhau, Spanish bacalao or the Basque baccalos, all meaning "codfish". Early Portuguese maps dating before Columbus' voyage indicate an island west of the Azores named Terra do Bacalhau which may have been the whole island of Newfoundland. Modern Baccalieu Island was known to Europeans by that name since at least 1556, when it was drawn on the Gastaldi map as "Bacalaos".^[2]

Ecological Reserve

Baccalieu Island is the largest seabird island in Newfoundland and supports the greatest diversity of breeding seabirds in eastern North America. The island supports the largest known colony of Leach's storm-petrel in the world, approximately 40% of the global population and about 70% of the western Atlantic population of this species. It is a nesting area for 11 breeding species:

Atlantic puffin (45,000 pairs - approximately 12% of the eastern North America population)
Black-legged kittiwake (13,000 - approximately 5 to 7% of the western Atlantic breeding population); and
Northern gannet (677 pairs - approximately 1.5% of the North American population).
Northern fulmar
Black guillemot
Common murre
Thick-billed murre
Razorbill
Herring gull
Great black-backed gull
The island also includes one of the largest winter populations of eider in Newfoundland.

The island has a surface of 5 km², and the reserve spans 23 km², including all of the island and one kilometre of ocean around the coast.

Lighthouses

Historically, two lighthouses were operated on Baccalieu Island; today both are automated. The lighthouse on the northern end is not operational any more; its light was extinguished in the early 1990s. This lighthouse was replaced as an aid to navigation by an automated light on a skeletal tower. It was originally a brick tower and was later encased in iron. The two storey residence attached was removed after 1950. The old tower's data:

Tower height: 36 feet (11 m)
Height of focal plane: 443 feet (135 m)
Description: Red, conical cast iron
Date established: 1859
Date present tower built: 1858
Date deactivated: 1990s
Current use: Unknown
Open to public: No

Lighthouse Keepers

North Light Keepers

James Ryan (1858 - 1874) (died 1875)
John Ryan (1874 - 1891) (died 1891)
Francis "Frank" Ryan (1891 - 1941) (died 1942)
James Francis Ryan (1941 - 1950) (died 1994)
Vincent Keough (1950-?)
Joseph Hatch
Felix Noonan (1963)
Eric Blundon
John Hyde
James Meaney Jr. (assistant under Frank Ryan) (died 1939)

Southwest Light Keepers

William Cranford (1908 - 1911)
Duncan Blundon (1912 - ?)
Joseph Burse
William Blundon
Oliver Blundon
Arthur Young
John F. Hatch
Patrick Rice
F. J. Noonan
Raymond J. Hyde
Linus Walsh (? - 2002)

^[4]

Ghost ship

In 1884 the merchant brig Resolven was found abandoned in the waters off Baccalieu and Catalina, Newfoundland and Labrador.^[5] The fate of the crew is unknown.

Notes

^ ^a ^b The Canadian Press (2017), The Canadian Press Stylebook (18th ed.), Toronto: The Canadian Press
^ The Gastaldi map Archived 2005-03-16 at the Wayback Machine
^ Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Canada: Southeastern Newfoundland". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved December 29, 2015.
^ "Baccalieu Island Lighthouse".
^ "The most mysterious disappearances at sea". MSN. Archived from the original on 2020-07-26. Retrieved 2019-12-01.

External links

[CPstyle-1] The Canadian Press (2017), The Canadian Press Stylebook (18th ed.), Toronto: The Canadian Press

[2] The Gastaldi map Archived 2005-03-16 at the Wayback Machine

[3] Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Canada: Southeastern Newfoundland". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved December 29, 2015.

[4] "Baccalieu Island Lighthouse".

[5] "The most mysterious disappearances at sea". MSN. Archived from the original on 2020-07-26. Retrieved 2019-12-01.

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