Baccalieu Island Southwest Point Light

Baccalieu Island is located at the northern extremities of Conception Bay in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The island has a surface area of 5 km² and 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, with an elevation of 137 meters.

The Baccalieu Island Southwest Point Light is not explicitly mentioned in the provided text, but the island does have a lighthouse. The name Baccalieu is derived from the Portuguese, Spanish, or Basque words for codfish, and the island has been known to Europeans by this name since at least 1556. The island is also home to a diverse range of seabirds, including the largest known colony of Leach's storm-petrel in the world.

The island's ecological reserve spans 23 km², including all of the island and one kilometre of ocean around the coast. The reserve supports a wide range of breeding seabirds, including Atlantic puffins, black-legged kittiwakes, and northern gannets. Unfortunately, there is no information available on the specific history of the Baccalieu Island Southwest Point Light, but the island itself has a rich and interesting history, with early Portuguese maps indicating an island west of the Azores named Terra do Bacalhau, which may have been the whole island of Newfoundland.

Light and tower

It has a cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern (first)<br />triangular tower (current) tower. The tower is built of brick tower covered by iron plates since 1893 with balcony and lantern (first)<br />steel skeletal tower (current). Its daymark is [[rust (colour)|rusty colour]] tower (first)<br />white tower (current). The light has a focal height of 53 metres. The light has a range of 16 nautical miles. Its light characteristic is Fl W 6s. It was first lit in 1990. It is managed by Baccalieu Island Ecological Reserve. The NGA list of lights numbers it 1740. The Admiralty list of lights numbers it H0500.