Tags: Lighthouse, Tower.

Kannonzaki Lighthouse (観音埼灯台) is a lighthouse on Cape Kannon on Miura Peninsula in Yokosuka Kanagawa Japan.The lighthouse was built by French engineer Léonce Verny. Its construction had been ordered under the Tokugawa regime in 1867 following the requests of foreign powers under the provisions of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Amity and Commerce of 1858.

Kannonzaki_Lighthouse_02.jpg
location
Japan, Miura Peninsula, Yokosuka Kanagawa, Cape_Kannon

Loading...

This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "Kannonzaki Lighthouse"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.