Cap d'Antifer Lighthouse

The Cap d'Antifer Lighthouse is an active aid to navigation located on the headland of the same name in La Poterie-Cap-d'Antifer, France. It guides shipping into the Port of Le Havre in the English Channel, specifically the Alabaster coast of Normandy. The current lighthouse was commissioned in 1955 and is the second to be built at the site after the original 19th-century lighthouse was destroyed during World War II.

The Cap d'Antifer Lighthouse is a 38-meter-high octagonal concrete tower with fluted sides and a focal height of 128 meters. It has a range of 29 nautical miles and a characteristic light of a flash every 20 seconds. The lighthouse was declared a monument historique in 2002 and is registered under the international Admiralty number A1250 and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) identifier of 114-8740.

The lighthouse has an interesting history. The need for a lighthouse on the Cap d'Antifer was identified in 1889, and the original lighthouse was completed in 1894. It was designed to accommodate a hyper-radial optic, the largest type of Fresnel lens available at the time. The optic was displayed at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889 before being installed in the tower. However, the lighthouse was destroyed during World War II, and a temporary pole light was erected after the war. The current lighthouse was built in 1955, with a new location chosen to protect it from the eroding cliff edge.

Light and tower

It lies on the English Channel. Its light characteristic is Fl W 20s. It was first lit in 1955.

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