Coordinates: 37°47′33.54″N 122°30′36.83″W / 37.79265°N 122.5102306°W / 37.79265; -122.5102306
| U.S. Coast Guard Archive | |
| Location | near Golden Gate Bridge, California |
|---|---|
| Year first constructed | 1906 |
| Year first lit | 1906 |
| Automated | 1966 |
| Foundation | Steel and Concrete |
| Construction | Steel |
| Tower shape | Cylindrical |
| Original lens | Third order Fresnel lens (removed) |
| Characteristic | white flash every 5 s |
Mile Rocks Lighthouse is a lighthouse on a rock about 2 miles (3.2 km) southwest of the Golden Gate Bridge, California. It's now an automated and unnatural looking lighthouse with a flat top and red(barberpole-like) painted rings which tends to stand out very obviously between the Golden Gate Bridge and the Cliff House to the south. To one side is a smaller, though clearly visible rock.
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“The strongest wind cannot stagger a Spirit; it is a Spirit’s breath. A just man’s purpose cannot be split on any Grampus or material rock, but itself will split rocks till it succeeds.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Why do we then shun death with anxious strife?
If Light can thus deceive, wherefore not Life?”
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