Anzer Mayak – is a lighthouse launched in 1960 at the top of the flat mounatain on the Anzer Island in the western part of the Vostochnaya Solovetskaya Salma. It maintains safety alongside the Solovetsky Islands in Onega Bay of the White Sea. It is basically an open-knit tetrahedral pyramid with the height of 11 m. The light height is 61 m above the sea level. The visibility is approximately 30 km.
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(2017). Anzer Mayak. In: The Western Arctic Seas Encyclopedia. Encyclopedia of Seas. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25582-8_10028
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