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Monhegan Island Light

Monhegan Island, ME · Active aid to navigation

No access information published

Those records publish navigation and historic data only — no visitor-access information — so none is shown. Access, if any, is set by the owner or operator.

Access source: Federal records checked: the U.S. Coast Guard AtoN / Light List record for this aid and its National Register of Historic Places record · Checked 2026-11-12

Owner / operator: U.S. Coast Guard (active aid to navigation)

The light

LocationMonhegan Island, ME (Lincoln County)
StatusActive aid to navigation (USCG AtoN file)
Light List number20
Light characteristicFl W 15s
Height of light above water47 ft (USCG AtoN)
StructureWhite tower
National Register of Historic PlacesListed 5/7/1980 · Reference #80000239
Position43.76481, -69.31583 (federal record; not for navigation)
Coast Guard remarkWithin 3 miles of island the light is obscured between west and southwest. Emergency light of reduced intensity when main light is extinguished.

Sources

USCG AtoN file via NOAA MarineCadastre (USCG NAVCEN data); NPS National Register of Historic Places listed-properties database (nps.gov).

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