Cape Beale Light

Cape Beale Lightstation is an active manned lighthouse on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.

The lighthouse was built in 1874 and its focal plane is 51 meters above sea level.

The lighthouse is best known for its proximity to the West Coast Trail which is the theoretical route survivors of shipwrecks would take to get to the nearby community of Bamfield.

From 1971 to 1998, the Cape Beale Light was part of the British Columbia Shore Station Oceanographic Program, collecting coastal water temperature and salinity measurements for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans everyday for 27 years.

[2] Cape Beale Light has a rainy and mild Oceanic climate (Köppen: Cfb; Trewartha: Dolk).