Miķeļbāka
Sign in to saveMiķeļbāka or Miķeļtornis is the tallest lighthouse in Latvia. It is located in the village of Miķeļtornis, Tārgale Parish, Ventspils Municipality; about northeast of Ventspils.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lighthouse
- Country
- Latvia
- Located in
- Miķeļtornis
- Body of water
- Irbe Strait
- Material used
- reinforced concrete
- Image
- Miķeļbāka.JPG
- Height
- 56
- Has parts of class
- tread
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- Commons category
- Miķeļbāka
- service entry
- 1957-00-00
- inception
- 1885-00-00
- light characteristic
- Fl(2) W 6s
- focal height
- 59
- lighthouse range
- 19
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- Etymology
- History
- World War I
- Independent Latvia (1918–1940)
- Soviet occupation (1940–1941; 1944–1990)
- Present day
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- References
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Miķeļbāka or Miķeļtornis is the tallest lighthouse in Latvia. It is located in the village of Miķeļtornis, Tārgale Parish, Ventspils Municipality; about northeast of Ventspils.
== Etymology == Legends date origins of the name to 1749, when Latvia was part of the Russian Empire and the coast was surveyed by Mikhail Ryabinin, a Russian midshipman, therefore the lighthouse later built was called Mikhailovsky mayak ( – 'Mikhail's lighthouse'). After a period, the name was Latvianised to "Miķeļbāka”. At it is the tallest lighthouse tower in the Baltic States.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Miķeļbāka” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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