Tags: Lighthouse, Tower.
Great Basses Reef Lighthouse is an offshore lighthouse in the south of Sri Lanka and it is operated and maintained by the Sri Lanka Navy. It is located on a reef 13 km off the coast of Yala National Park near Little Basses Reef Lighthouse. It is accessible only by boat. The two Basses lighthouses ‘Great’ and ‘Little’ are among the most famous offshore lighthouses of Asia.The lighthouse was designed by Alexander Gordon and Sir James Nicholas Douglass in 1867. Each block weighs 2 to 3 tons.
