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Lansing Shoal Light Station

Also Lansing Shoal crib light

TypeLight station
Builtby 1974
Coordinates45.9036° N, 85.5617° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
ErasModern era
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Light station
Built
by 1974
Coordinates
45.9036° N, 85.5617° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
Eras
Modern era
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Summary

Lansing Shoal Light Station was described in January 1974 as a five-man crib light approximately eight miles north of Beaver Island. The current NOAA Coast Pilot places the light at 45°54′13″N, 85°33′42″W and identifies the tower and sound signal. Two crew members left in a small open boat on New Year’s Eve and became trapped in drift ice near Garden Island.

Evidence and limits

This is a source-bounded light-station record. The NOAA position maps the light feature itself, but the 1974 issue does not provide the station’s construction or operating history, official agency identity, or the other three crew members’ names. The coordinate is not a surveyed boundary for the offshore station or its rip-rap footprint.

See also

Read the document

92 pages, rendered from the held scan.

Lansing Shoal Light Station — p. 1
Page 1 of 92Beaver Beacon, January 1974, “Men Against The Sea.”Open the page image · Download this page
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Sources

  1. Calls Lansing Shoal Light Station a five-man crib-light crew station approximately eight miles north of Beaver Island; it does not provide coordinates, construction history, agency records, or the names of the other three crew members.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1974-01_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held six-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1974-01_Beaver-Beacon
  3. The current Coast Pilot identifies Lansing Shoals Light at 45°54′13″N, 85°33′42″W and describes the square gray tower, sound signal, and rip-rap around its base. This supplies an authoritative light-feature position; it does not reconstruct the full historical station complex or establish every detail in the 1974 newspaper account.
    federal · noaa_coast_pilot · noaa-coast-pilot-6-chapter-11-2026-08-02
  4. Map point used for the crib light; it improves the station location but is not an independent Coast Guard survey or confirmation of the historical station’s full construction and operating history.

Added 1 August 2026 · revised 6 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Lansing Shoal Light Station”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/structures/lansing-shoal-light-station-1974/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, January 1974, “Men Against The Sea.” (and 3 further sources listed on the page).

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