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Ponta do Norte Lighthouse

lighthouse in Cape Verde

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ10280119 ↗
Source-derived summary

Farol de Ponta Norte is a lighthouse in the northernmost point of the island of Sal, Cape Verde. It is located near the headland Ponta Norte. The original lighthouse was a 13 metres high cast iron tower, constructed in 1897. This was replaced with a masonry tower around 1940, which is now in ruins. The current light is on a 5 metres metal tower.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Ponta do Norte Lighthouse” is lighthouse in Cape Verde. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Ponta, Norte and Lighthouse, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1897, 1940—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1897, 1940—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. For this dossier, Ponta, Norte and Lighthouse is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q10280119. Authority coordinates are 16.835, -22.917. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1897 and 1940.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ponta do Norte Lighthouse” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.