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Amedee Lighthouse

The Amédée beacon is an iron beacon placed on Amédée Island, 24 km far from Nouméa, New Caledonia. At 56 meters tall, it is one of the tallest beacons on the planet and the first metallic beacon developed in France. 

The beacon was initially built in Paris in 1862 and stood two years in La Villette as a showing of its strength. Pre-assembled iron outline was a moderately new system and Monsieur Leonce Reynaud, Director of Lighthouses for France, didn't have much confidence in it. Throughout the time when the beacon stayed in Paris from July 1862 to June 1864, it turned into a prevalent goal for Parisians' strolls. After that it was destroyed and stuffed into 1,265 crates, weighing 388 tonnes in total. It was then transported along the Seine River to the port of Le Havre for the last phase of its long voyage to New Caledonia.

The beacon touched base in New Caledonia, in November 1864. Following ten months of exceptional work by military personnel and nearby laborers, it was raised on the Amedee Island. It was first illuminated on the fifteenth November 1865, the Saint's day of the Empress Eugenie, Napoleon III's wife. Its light signs the door to the section of Boulari, one of just three natural passages in the reef encompassing New Caledonia. 

The Amedee beacon towers 56 meters over the little island. A winding cast iron staircase comprising of 247 steps lead to the top. The island is uninhabited, and the beacon unmanned aside from throughout the daytime when guests are permitted access. Nowadays it is sun based fueled yet throughout its life it has been controlled by windpump, kerosene and originally colza oil.

Amedee Lighthouse





Source : Wikipedia
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