The Isle Royale Light, or Menagerie Island Light, is a

lighthouse A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lens (optics), lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways. Ligh ...

within

Isle Royale National Park Isle Royale National Park is a List of national parks of the United States, national park of the United States consisting of Isle Royale, along with more than 400 small adjacent islands and the surrounding waters of Lake Superior, in Michigan. ...

, in

Keweenaw County Keweenaw County (, ) is a county in the western Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the county's population was 2,046, making it Michigan's least populous county. It is also the state's largest county by total ...

, northern

Michigan Michigan ( ) is a peninsular U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, ...

, United States.

Description

It is located in

Lake Superior Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface areaThe Caspian Sea is the largest lake, but is saline, not freshwater. Lake Michigan–Huron has a larger combined surface area than Superior, but is normally considered tw ...

on Menagerie Island, the most easterly of the group of small islands at the opening of Siskiwit Bay, near the southern shore of

Isle Royale Isle Royale (, ) is an Islands of the Great Lakes, island of the Great Lakes located in the northwest of Lake Superior and part of the U.S. state of Michigan. The island and the 450 surrounding smaller islands and waters make up Isle Royale Na ...

. The light's residence has steel shutters for protection from stormwater damage, as this portion of Lake Superior has very severe storms.

History

The Isle Royale Light was built in 1875 of red

sandstone Sandstone is a Clastic rock#Sedimentary clastic rocks, clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of grain size, sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate mineral, silicate grains, Cementation (geology), cemented together by another mineral. Sand ...

, as a U.S. Coast Guard lighthouse.''Seeing the Light, Menagerie Island Light''
— ''comprehensive history of the Isle Royale Light'', documented by Terry Pepper. It was placed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

in 1983.

References

* "Unwatched Light with Stand-By at Isle Royal Light Station, Mich." ''Lighthouse Service Bulletin'' III, 62 (Feb 1, 1929), pp. 276–277.
Lighthouse Central, Managerie Island light ''The Ultimate Guide to Upper Michigan Lighthouses''
— by Jerry Roach. (; Publisher: Bugs Publishing LLC - 2007).

External links

— ''Isle Royale National Park''. * ttp://www.michiganlights.com/isleroyallh.htm Michigan Lighthouse Conservancy: Isle Royale Light
Marinas.com: aerial photos of Isle Royale Light (Menagerie Island Light)

— by David Wobser; ''Great Laker'' magazine; December, 2004.

* ttp://www.lighthousesrus.org/Maps/mapIt.htm?file=GL/Superior1.xml Interactive map of lighthouses in eastern Lake Superior, powered by Google.* {{authority control Lighthouses in Keweenaw County, Michigan Lake Superior Isle Royale National Park Lighthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Michigan Lighthouses completed in 1875 Uninhabited islands of Michigan National Register of Historic Places in Isle Royale National Park