Shore station

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Alternative term: Land station

An aid to navigation station founded on or close to the coast, emitting signals that can provide navigational information to vessels in the vicinity.


Note: The station may also be defined in terms of its principal aid to navigation, e.g. light station, fog signal station.




Please note that this is the term as it stands in the original IALA Dictionary edition (1970-1989)