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Managing Organization:
Kalaupapa National Park
Telephone:
808-567-6802
Website: http://www.nps.gov/kala/
Email: KALA_INTERPRETATION@nps.gov
Contact Address Information:
P.O. Box 2222
Kalaupapa
Hawaii,
96742,
United States
Notes:
This is the tallest lighthouse on the Pacific Ocean. Tower Height: 138 Height of Focal Plane: 213 Description of Tower: White, octagonal concrete tower.
This light is operational
Other Buildings?
1.5 story stone keeper's bungalow, second concrete keeper's house (1951), storage building. Date Established: 1909 Date Present Tower Built: 1909 Date Automated: 1970 Optics: 1909: Second order Fresnel lens, now DCB-24. Current Use: Active aid to navigation. Open To Public? By appointment. Directions:
The park can be reached by air through commercial and charter flights from Honolulu, O`ahu, and from Hoolehua, Moloka`i. Some visitors arrive by private boats and tie to buoys near the dock at Kalaupapa. Lighthouse tours may be available by appointment; call 808-567-6802, EXT. 22 OR 26. Listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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