Location | Saint Philip, Barbados |
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Coordinates | 13°09′49″N59°25′58″W / 13.163726°N 59.432906°W |
Tower | |
Constructed | 1875 |
Construction | limestone |
Height | 29.5 metres (97 ft) |
Shape | cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern |
Markings | white tower and black lantern |
Light | |
Deactivated | 2007-2011 |
Focal height | 65 metres (213 ft) |
Range | 3 nmi (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) |
Characteristic | F R |
Ragged Point Lighthouse is situated at the easternmost point of the island of Barbados, [1] near the village of Ragged Point in the parish of Saint Philip.
Point Judith is a village and a small cape, on the coast of Narragansett, Rhode Island, on the western side of Narragansett Bay where it opens out onto Rhode Island Sound. It is the location for the year-round ferry service that connects Block Island to the mainland and contains the fishing hamlet of Galilee, Rhode Island.
The Diablerets are a huge ice-covered mountain massif of the Alps, culminating at the Sommet des Diablerets at 3,210 metres (10,530 ft) above sea level and straddling the border between the Swiss cantons of Vaud (VD) and Valais (VS). The northeastern part of the massif stretches also into the canton of Bern (BE).
The parish of Saint Lucy is the northernmost area in the country of Barbados. Saint Lucy is the only parish of Barbados out of the eleven to be named after a female patron saint, Saint Lucy of Syracuse. Saint Lucy's shape also resembles a peninsula, surrounded on three sides by the Atlantic Ocean to the north, east and west. The Harrison Point Lighthouse is located in Harrisons, Saint Lucy between Great Head and Norse's Bay, also in Saint Lucy. To the south lies the neighbouring Parish of Saint Peter.
Saint Philip is a parish of Barbados at the easternmost end of the island. Saint Philip’s Parish Church was built as the Anglican parish church in 1640.
Culpepper Island is a tiny rock (island) in the Atlantic Ocean close to Bayfield and Ragged Point in Saint Philip, Barbados. The island is uninhabited.
Cape Henry is a cape on the Atlantic shore of Virginia located in the northeast corner of Virginia Beach. It is the southern boundary of the entrance to the long estuary of the Chesapeake Bay.
Carlisle Bay is a small natural harbour located in the southwest region of Barbados. The island nation's capital, Bridgetown, is situated on this bay which has been turned into a marine park. Carlisle Bay's marine park is a popular spot on the island for scuba diving. Many relics, like anchors and cannonballs, from ships can be found on the ocean floor in Carlisle Bay.
The following is an alphabetical list of topics related to the nation of Barbados.
The Ragged Point Light was a screw-pile lighthouse located in the Potomac River. It was the last lighthouse built in Maryland waters and the last built at a location in the Chesapeake Bay.
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Naval Facility (NAVFAC) Barbados, TWI, in commission 1957 to 1979, was the most southern of the Atlantic Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS) shore terminals. It had the distinction making the first system detection of a Soviet nuclear submarine in 1962 as that submarine was transiting off Norway. The facility was located adjacent to the Harrison Point Lighthouse, Parish of Saint Lucy.
South Point Lighthouse is a lighthouse located in the south of Barbados. Its height is 89 feet (27 m).
Speed Rabbit Pizza S.A. is a pizza restaurant chain in France, with its headquarters in Lille, Nord in the Hauts-de-France region. The company was listed on the Marché Libre of the Paris Stock Exchange in 1996. Daniel Sommer has been the executive CEO since 1999. As of December 2012 the executive director was Marie-Agnès Sommet.
Needham's Point Lighthouse is a lighthouse located in the southwest coast of Barbados.
Harrison Point Lighthouse is a lighthouse located in the northern Parish of Saint Lucy, Barbados.
Ragged Point may refer to:
Atlantic Shores is a populated place in the parish of Christ Church, Barbados. It is a coastal area with beaches located on the south coast of Barbados.
The Organisation de la microfrancophonie is an intermicronational organisation that aims to promote French-speaking (Francophone) micronations in communities in France and increase intermicronational cooperation. Founded in 2015 and based on the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, Microfrancophonie accepts micronations as member states, and has hosted three intermicronational summits between these members. As of December 2022, Microfrancophonie had 21 member states.