- Hope Town
Hope Town is one of the districts of the
Bahamas , on the Abaco islands as well as a small village onElbow Cay , located in Abaco. Golf carts are the main source of transportation, and most of the supplies for the area are brought in by barge each week. In Hope Town, neither cars nor golf carts are permitted in the main part of town. Only bicycles and walking are permitted. Cars and golf carts are permitted on the outskirts of town though. All the buildings that are built must adhere to Bahamian Architecture at the discretion of Town Planning. The seat of theHope Town District Council is in Hope Town, and most of the meetings are held there.Elbow Cay lighthouse
Infobox_Lighthouse
name = Elbow Cay
caption =
location = Elbow Cay, port of Hope Town
coordinates =
yearbuilt = 1862
yearlit = 1864
automated =
yeardeactivated =
foundation =
construction = Masonry
shape = Conical
marking = Red and white bands
height =
elevation = 37 m (121 ft)
lens = First order Fresnel
currentlens =
intensity =
range = 23 nmi
characteristic = Fl(5) 15s
fogsignal =
admiralty = J4572
NGA = 11800
ARLHS = BAH-010Hope Town features one of the last operational kerosene-fueled lighthouses in the world. This lighthouse was built in
1862 and became operational two years latercite web|url=http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/bhs.htm|author=Rowlett, Russ|title=The Lighthouse Directory] , it is striped horizontally red and white. Its light can be seen from 23nautical miles away. [cite web|url=http://www.abacoguide.net/hopetown.htm|title=Hope Town, Abaco, Bahamas]The Hope Town Lighthouse is one of only three Manual Lighthouses left in the World. It has a spring mechanism that has to be hand cranked every several hours to maintain the sequence of five white flashes every 15 seconds. The lamp burns kerosene oil with a wick and mantle. The light is then focused as it passes through the optics of a first order
Fresnel lens cite web|url=http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/bhs.htm|author=Rowlett, Russ|title=The Lighthouse Directory] which floats on a bed of mercury.Hurricanes
Probably Hope Town's most notable hurricane was
Hurricane Floyd that hit Hope Town on September 14, 1999 as a Category 4 on theSaffir-Simpson scale .References
External links
* [http://www.VisitHopeTown.com/about_hope_town.html Information about Hope Town: Climate, History, Lighthouse, Holidays]
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