Chumbe Lighthouse

Zanzibar City مدينة زنجبار, Italy

The Chumbe Lighthouse (Swahili: Mnara wa Taa wa Chumbe) is a historic lighthouse located on Chumbe Island on Malindi ward of Mjini District in the Mjini Magharibi Region of Tanzania's Zanzibar Island. Until 2013 it burned acetylene to produce the light, a process that since 1926 had been automated w

ith use of a sun valve. The lighthouse now uses a solar-powered (photovoltaic) system.

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