| Brazil owns and occupies a scattering of islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, including several of the most remote and least well known islands of the world. This pages lists the lighthouses built on those islands. Only one, Fernando de Naronha, is inhabited. The Portuguese word for a lighthouse is farol, plural faróis. The word farolete is used for smaller lightbeacons. Lighthouses in Brazil are owned by the navy (Marinha do Brasil) and maintained by the Centro de Sinalização Náutica e Reparos Almirante Moraes Rego (CAMR) in the Diretoria de Hidrografia e Navegacão (DHN). ARLHS numbers are from the ARLHS World List of Lights. Admiralty numbers are from volume G of the Admiralty List of Lights & Fog Signals. U.S. NGA List numbers are from Publication 110.
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![]() Farol de Fernando de Noronha CAMR photo |
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Posted February 11, 2008. Checked and revised January 28, 2009. Lighthouses: 5. Site copyright 2009 Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.