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See Faro Cabo San Pío, Miter Peninsula, Argentina
The Cabo San Pio lighthouse is in front of Nueva Island, on the coast of the north bank of the Beagle Channel on the Miter Peninsula.
Construction began in March 1919 under the supervision of Frigate Lieutenant Francisco Stewart of the ARA "Piedra Buena" vessel, with 34 masons, 2 mason laborers, 3 laborers, 1 cook and 2 firefighters. The lighthouse was built in 10 days and by March 20 it had already been given two coats of whitewash. It is a conical tower 8 meters high and is slightly curvilinear, being released to service on March 22, 1919.
It is a conical tower, with white and red stripes, 8 meters high. Current light range is 9.2 nautical miles (17.0 km), using solar photovoltaic power (with solar panels and batteries), equipment installed March 1985.
The name of the cape alludes to the corvette San Pío with which the frigate lieutenant Juan José de Elizalde y Ustáriz carried out an expedition to the eastern coast of Tierra del Fuego in 1790. In the month of February 1791 they sent a boat from Bahía Aguirre that arrived on the 3rd of that month at a point that he identified as nameless. However, the distance recorded by Elizalde does not coincide with the one measurable from Bahía Aguirre, so the one identified by the expedition would not be the one that today bears that name. Robert Fitz Roy 's expedition in the 19th century is what gives it its current name in this geographical accident.
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