Cilaibi Light (Chinese: 奇萊鼻燈塔) is one of several lighthouses in Taiwan. It is located in Cilaibi to the north of Hualien Harbor in Hualien County. Now Cilaibi Lighthouse is administrated by Directorate General of Customs, a part of Ministry of Finance, Taiwan. The lighthouse is built between the Central Mountain Range and the Pacific Ocean. Also, the lighthouse is not open to the public all year around.
The lighthouse was built by Japanese in 1931. The building is 7.6 meters high, concrete and white. It used acetylene flashing light, using pressure-regulated acetylene and timing device, to flash once at a regualr 3 seconds interval. During World War II, the lighthouse was serious damaged by Allies' bombing.
Until 1963, in order to coordinate Hualien Harbor to be an international port, therefore, nearby the original lighthouse base, a newly white pentagon concrete building was built into a new lighthouse. The newly built Cilaibi Lighthouse uses 4th class white light electric lamp, the light flashing 3 seconds and dimming 3 seconds at a regular 6 seconds interval, and the luminous intensity is 28,000 cd. Then, in 1973, set a non-directional beacon pole, output power 100 watts and range 100 nms, as was coordinated with the Lyudao Light non-directional beacon pole for the ships mutual positioning. In 1985, a radar beacon pole was set. Thus, in 1992, the communication systems which were comprehensively changed into a dual-frequency radar beacon pole.
