Point Amour Lighthouse

Point Amour Lighthouse was completed in 1857 at L’Anse Amour on Forteau Bay in the Strait of Belle Isle to guide ships through a major route between the Atlantic and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Built during the 1850s as steamship traffic between Europe and North America increased, it is a cylindrical Imperial Tower made largely of locally quarried limestone and rises 109 feet, the tallest lighthouse in Atlantic Canada and the second tallest in the country. Its light still uses a second-order Fresnel lens, the station became automated in 1996, and the attached former keepers’ residence now serves as a museum.

Newfoundland and Labrador · Canada