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Great Point Light, officially Nantucket 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 ...
located on the northernmost point of
Nantucket Island Nantucket () is an island in the state of Massachusetts in the United States, about south of the Cape Cod peninsula. Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck and Muskeget, it constitutes the Town and County of Nantucket, a combined cou ...
. First built in 1784, the original wooden tower was destroyed by fire in 1816. The following year a stone tower was erected which stood until toppled in a storm in March 1984. Rebuilt again in 1986, the stone tower was built to replicate the old one, and still remains in operation today. Modern additions include
solar panel A solar panel is a device that converts sunlight into electricity by using photovoltaic (PV) cells. PV cells are made of materials that produce excited electrons when exposed to light. These electrons flow through a circuit and produce direct ...
s to recharge the light's batteries, and a sheet pile foundation and thick concrete mat to help withstand erosion. The lighthouse sits on a thin spit of beach where the currents of the
Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's five borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions, with an area of about . It covers approximately 17% of Earth#Surface, Earth's surface and about 24% of its water surface area. During the ...
and Nantucket Sound meet. It was added to 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 1982 as Nantucket Light and removed after the destruction of the listed structure in 1986.


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Lightship Nantucket The station named ''Nantucket'' or ''Nantucket Shoals'' was served by a number of lightvessels (also termed lightships) that marked the hazardous Nantucket Shoals south of Nantucket Island. The vessels, given numbers as their "name," had the st ...


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* {{Authority control Lighthouses completed in 1784 Lighthouses completed in 1817 Lighthouses completed in 1986 Lighthouses in Nantucket, Massachusetts Lighthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Former National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places in Nantucket, Massachusetts 1784 establishments in Massachusetts