Triangle Island Lighthouse, Sooke Regional Museum, Sooke, British Columbia, Canada
Triangle Island lies 29 miles offshore from the northwest tip of Vancouver Island in an extremely isolated position. In 1909 a 46 foot lighthouse tower was built on the highest point of the island and equipped with a giant first order Fresnel lens. This proved to b a serious error of judgement since the lighthouse was covered in fog for over 200 hundred days a year. In 1919 the Lighthouse Board admitted there error and removed the light, sending it to Estevan Point Lighthouse. The lantern room and lens then ended up in storage in Victoria. In 2004 the Coast Guard honored a request and donated the lantern and lens to the Sooke Regional Museum. In 2005 the museum had a concrete tower built and placed everything on display.
Sooke is taken from a First Nation native Indian tribe name.
Triangle Island Lighthouse, Sooke Regional Museum, Sooke, British Columbia, Canada
Triangle Island lies 29 miles offshore from the northwest tip of Vancouver Island in an extremely isolated position. In 1909 a 46 foot lighthouse tower was built on the highest point of the island and equipped with a giant first order Fresnel lens. This proved to b a serious error of judgement since the lighthouse was covered in fog for over 200 hundred days a year. In 1919 the Lighthouse Board admitted there error and removed the light, sending it to Estevan Point Lighthouse. The lantern room and lens then ended up in storage in Victoria. In 2004 the Coast Guard honored a request and donated the lantern and lens to the Sooke Regional Museum. In 2005 the museum had a concrete tower built and placed everything on display.
Sooke is taken from a First Nation native Indian tribe name.