Light List


A Light List is a detailed list of navigational aids including lighthouses and other lighted navigation aids, unlighted buoys, radiobeacons, daybeacons, and racons. Light lists are published by most of the major maritime nations. Some nations, including the United Kingdom and the United States, publish lists that cover the whole world in many volumes. Other nations publish lists that cover only their own coasts.

Canada

The Canadian Coast Guard publishes the List of Lights, Buoys and Fog Signals in four volumes which are updated periodically
The books are available in paper from dealers. As well, HTML and PDF formats updated up to the latest version of the Monthly Notices to Mariners can be viewed online. The PDF format is also available for free download.

Chile

The Chilean official list of lighthouses is the Lista de Faros de la costa de Chile, Costa Oriental de Tierra del Fuego y Territorio Antártico published by the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Chilean Navy
Navigational aids in Chile are provided by the Servicio de Señalización Marítima , a department of the Dirección de Seguridad y Operaciones Marítimas , of the Dirección General del Territorio Marítimo y de Marina Mercante of the Chilean Navy.

France

SHOM, the French Naval Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service, publishes Livres des feux et signaux de brume in four volumes, updated periodically:
The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, generally known as "The Admiralty", publishes the Admiralty List of Lights and Fog Signals covering the whole world in 12 volumes. The information is also available in digital form.

United States

The United States Coast Guard Light List is published annually in 7 volumes. It covers the entire coastline of the United States and its possessions.
Each volume of the Light List contains aids to navigation in geographic order from north to south along the Atlantic coast, from east to west along the Gulf coast, and from south to north along the Pacific coast. It lists seacoast aids first, followed by entrance and harbor aids listed from seaward.
Intracoastal Waterway aids are listed last in geographic order in the direction from New Jersey to Florida to the border of Texas and Mexico.
The listings are preceded by a description of the aids to navigation system in the United States, luminous range diagram, geographic range tables, and other information.
NGA publishes NGA List of Lights Radio Aids & Fog Signals covering the rest of the world:
Both the Coast Guard and the NGA lists are available in book form from a range of dealers and in PDF form, without charge.