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AIDE FIXE NAVIGATION [2 records]

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Record 1 2020-10-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Marine and River Navigation Aids
CONT

… aids to navigation … can be either fixed aids or floating aids; fixed aids being on shore and non-mobile and floating aids … being on the water … In the fixed category we have lighthouses, range markers (either lit or unlit), towers (with day marks or lights or both), poles with day boards and even brushes and stakes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aides à la navigation fluviale et maritime
CONT

Les aides fixes ont des caractéristiques qui permettent de les identifier. Elles consistent en la couleur du feu, les caractéristiques des éclats et la couleur et la forme de l’ouvrage […]

Spanish

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Record 2 2009-02-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Marine and River Navigation Aids
CONT

In many instances beacons are tall masonry structures built on headlands for recognition purposes. All beacons have some distinguishing mark: those on land are generally painted some distinctive color; while those on sandbanks, and so on, are surmounted by a topmark (globe, diamond, triangle, and so on). Sandbank beacons are very often steel masts sunk into sand.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aides à la navigation fluviale et maritime
DEF

Marque fixe ou flottante, en bois ou en métal, édifiée à terre ou sur des rochers en mer pour servir d’aide à la navigation et de repère.

OBS

Ces marques sont des tourelles, perches, échafaudages, surmontés d’un signal ou voyant. Les balises s’identifient par leur couleur, leur forme, le contour de leur voyant : cône, deux cônes accolés par la base ou le sommet, cylindre, croix, sphère, [...]

OBS

balise : terme uniformisé par le Comité de normalisation de la terminologie navale.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ayuda a la navegación marítima y fluvial
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