lighthouse beacons
Maritime warning lights
Lighthouse beacons are the lights that lighthouses project to guide ships and warn of hazards.
The term emphasizes the light itself rather than the structure housing it.
Beacon suggests a signal meant to be seen from far away: The lighthouse beacon swept across the dark water.
Figuratively, anything that guides or warns may be called a beacon.
- buoysAnchored floating signals
- lensesCurved transparent refractors
- lighthousesCoastal towers with lamps
- distress signalsUrgent pleas for rescue
- nautical chartsMaps for sea navigation
prisms · breakwaters · foghorns · photometry · Morse code · piers · reflectors · docks · compasses · emergency flares · ship to shore · shipping lanes · safe harbor · rocky coastline · GPS systems · halogen lamps · observation decks · weather forecasts
- navigationcompass, compass rose, signs, charts, navbar
- pilotagepilots, harbor pilots, pilot boat, marine pilots, river pilots
lighthouse beaconsdarkness
Total absence of light
blackout · pitch black · uncharted waters · obscurity · fog
lighthouse beaconspitch darkness
Complete absence of light
blackout · moonless night · fog banks · murky waters · obscurity
lighthouse, beacon, light, house, lights, houses, lighted, lighting, lighter