Ballenas Island Light

Ballenas Island Light is an active lighthouse on West Ballenas Island in British Columbia, Canada. Built in 1900 and relocated in 1912, it is a white octagonal concrete tower with a red lantern, rising 27 metres or 89 feet. The light continues to serve as an aid to navigation, though it is closed to the public because the island is privately owned. Its history also includes a long succession of resident keepers, from William Henry Brown in 1901 to Richard Wood in the 1990s, showing the sustained human effort once required to support coastal navigation.