Amphitrite Point Lighthouse

File:Amphitrite Point Light on the Wild Pacific Trail.jpgAmphitrite Point has the only active lighthouse in the Tofino-Ucluelet area accessible by automobile, with the only other local lighthouse being on Lennard Island, viewable only by air or boat. The Amphitrite Point Light is located at the southern end of the Ucluelet Peninsula and the north side of the Barkley Sound, approximately 3 kilometers south of downtown Ucluelet and 40 kilometers south of Tofino, British Columbia. The lighthouse tower is closed to the public but the grounds are open as part of the Lighthouse Loop section of the Wild Pacific Trail. In addition to hiking the trail to view the lighthouse, visitors can park at the end of Coast Guard Road and walk directly to the lighthouse in 2–3 minutes. Amphitrite Point, much like the rest of the Ucluelet Peninsula, is subjected to frequent winter storms and has an oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) with approximately 3.3 metres (130 inches) of annual rainfall.{{Cite web|url=http://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_normals/results_1981_2010_e.html?searchType=stnName&txtStationName=Ucluelet+Kennedy+Camp&searchMethod=contains&txtCentralLatMin=0&txtCentralLatSec=0&txtCentralLongMin=0&txtCentralLongSec=0&stnID=283&dispBack=1|title=Canadian Climate Normals 1981-2010 Station Data|date=2017-10-10|website=Environment Canada|access-date=2017-12-24}} The next active lighthouse to the north of Amphitrite Point Light is the Lennard Island Lighthouse off of Chesterman Beach; the next active lighthouse to the south is the Cape Beale Lightstation on the south side of Barkley Sound.

The first lighthouse at this site was a small wooden tower built in 1906.{{Cite web|url=http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=1104|title=Amphitrite Point Lighthouse|website=LighthouseFriends|language=en-us|access-date=2017-11-04}} This lighthouse was destroyed in bad weather in 1914, and the current concrete lighthouse opened in March 1915.{{Cite rowlett|bc|access-date=2017-11-04}} Amphitrite Point is exposed to frequent gale-force winds, tidal waves and is also in a tsunami inundation zone, so the current lighthouse (built in 1915) derives its peculiar shape and construction from being designed to withstand strong westerly storms coming off the Pacific Ocean. It was staffed by Canadian Coast Guard lighthouse keepers from 1915 until 1988, when it was automated.

The Amphitrite Point Light is one of 12 lighthouses part of the British Columbia Shore Station Oceanographic Program, collecting coastal water temperature and salinity measurements everyday since 1934.{{Cite web|last=Fisheries and Oceans Canada|date=2019-03-21|title=Data from BC lightstations|url=https://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/science/data-donnees/lightstations-phares/index-eng.html|access-date=2021-02-11|website=www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca|publisher=Fisheries and Oceans Canada}} Their data show an increase in coastal water temperatures of 0.08 °C per decade. This trend is a result of anthropogenic climate change.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2019|title=Canada's Changing Climate Report (CCCR)|url=https://changingclimate.ca/CCCR2019/|access-date=2021-02-10|website=|page=358|quote=There is only a 1% possibility that the trend is due to chance}}

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| location = Amphitrite Point Light

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| May snow cm = 0.0

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| Nov snow cm = 2.4

| Dec snow cm = 7.3

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| Jan precipitation days = 22.4

| Feb precipitation days = 19.6

| Mar precipitation days = 20.7

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| May precipitation days = 15.6

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| Dec precipitation mm = 421.4

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| Mar rain mm = 309.4

| May rain mm = 157.1

| year rain mm = 3160.6

| Jun rain mm = 140.3

| Jul rain mm = 71.8

| Aug rain mm = 75.3

| Sep rain mm = 113.4

| Oct rain mm = 339.0

| Nov rain mm = 458.5

| Dec rain mm = 414.2

| Apr precipitation days = 18.8

| Jun precipitation days = 14.3

| Oct precipitation mm = 339.0

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| Jan snow days = 1.3

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| Dec snow days = 1.7

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| source 1 = Environment Canada{{cite web

| publisher = Environment Canada

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| title = Amphitrite Point

| work = Canadian Climate Normals 1981–2010 Station Data

| date=25 September 2013 | access-date = October 21, 2019}}

| year rain days = 208.1

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| Nov precipitation days = 23.8

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| Feb rain days = 19.2

| Oct rain days = 19.5

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| Apr rain days = 18.8

| May rain days = 15.6

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| Jul rain days = 10.7

| Aug rain days = 9.6

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| Dec high C = 8.1

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| May high C = 13.9

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| Mar mean C = 7.3

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| Jun mean C = 12.7

| Jul mean C = 14.2

| Aug mean C = 14.7

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| Apr high C = 11.6

| Oct mean C = 10.7

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| Feb record high C = 16.8

| Mar record high C = 17.2

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| Aug record high C = 26.6

| Mar high C = 10.2

| Sep record high C = 25.6

| Oct record high C = 20.8

| Nov record high C = 16.6

| Dec record high C = 14.5

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| year record low C = -12.8

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| Nov record low C = -6.9

| Dec record low C = -7.6

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| Feb precipitation mm = 371.2

| Mar precipitation mm = 311.1

| Apr precipitation mm = 262.4

| May precipitation mm = 157.1

| Jun precipitation mm = 140.3

| Jul precipitation mm = 71.8

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| Apr record low C = -2.1

| Dec mean C = 5.7

| Jul low C = 11.6

| year mean C = 9.9

| Jan low C = 3.9

| Feb low C = 3.8

| Mar low C = 4.5

| Apr low C = 5.6

| May low C = 8.1

| Jun low C = 10.2

| Aug low C = 12.1

| Mar record low C = -6.0

| Sep low C = 11.0

| Oct low C = 8.1

| Nov low C = 5.3

| Dec low C = 3.3

| year low C = 7.3

| Jan record low C = -7.3

| Feb record low C = -12.8

| date = October 2019

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