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False Duck Light Named Sailors of Danger on Lake Ontario
Maritime historian Richard Palmer highlights Lake Ontario shipwrecks and port history in a piece tracing False Duck Light on False Duck Island near Prince Edward County. The 75 foot beacon, built in 1828 and long used to warn mariners, was decommissioned in 1965 and replaced by a modern light, with the tower’s beacon now housed at Mariners Park Museum in Prince Edward County.
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Richard Palmer
Lake Ontario
False Duck Island
Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
False Duck
Mariners’ Park Museum
Prince Edward County
Ontario
Picton
Main Duck Island
Point Traverse
Oswego
United States
Kingston
Lake