- Tasku daybeacon
Tasku daybeacon ("Taskun pooki" in Finnish) is a
daymark tower located on the island of Tasku ("Pocket" in English) in theRaahe archipelago in theGulf of Bothnia inFinland . The structure was built in1853 and in1983 the Finnish Maritime Administration handed it over to the City of Raahe. Currently the city is responsible of the upkeep of this historical daybeacon. The Tasku deaybeacon is one of three historical daybeacons in Raahe archipelago, however only two daybeacons remain: the second one is theIso-Kraaseli daybeacon .The tower is made of wood and supported by a wooden central column measuring 1.5 meters (5 feet) around. The tower consists of a square bottom section, followed by a pyramidical top section. The top marker is a wooden cross, rising 19.2 meters (63 feet) above sea level. The tower is painted yellow. The daybeacon has historical cultural heritage and is a part of Finnish maritime building heritage.
The city of Raahe reconditioned and repainted the daybeacon in
2002 –2003 . The restoration was honored by the Finnish Lighthouse Society in2004 .The daybeacon was not the first daymarker on Tasku island. There has been a daymarker built in the
1650s of unknown proportions, also its charasteristics are unknown.ources
* [http://www.majakkaseura.fi/fin/retket/raahen_pookit_2005/ Finnish Lighthouse Society: Daybeacons of Raahe, February 2005] (in Finnish)
* [http://edu.raahe.fi/yhdistykset/matkailuoppaat/taskunpooki.html City of Raahe: Ookko kuullu? Taskun pooki] (in Finnish)
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