Southerness lighthouse is located at the village of Southerness in South West Scotland. It is at present the second oldest lighthouse in Scotland. The...
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Southerness (/sʌðə'nɛs/; Scots: Satterness) is a small, compact coastal village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Southerness is located approximately...
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Shinnel Water Solway Firth, Solwaybank Southern Upland Way Southerness, Southerness Lighthouse Springholm Stair Park Stewartry Museum St. John's Town of...
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South Foreland Lighthouses are a pair of Victorian lighthouses on the South Foreland in St. Margaret's Bay, Dover, Kent, England, used to warn ships approaching...
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Gravestone of Walter Newall, St. Michael's Churchyard, Dumfries Southerness Lighthouse (1842-3), Solway Firth The Observatory (1836), Dumfries Anwoth Church...
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A lighthouse keeper or lightkeeper is a person responsible for tending and caring for a lighthouse, particularly the light and lens in the days when oil...
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The South Bishop Lighthouse is a lighthouse on South Bishop Island (also known as Emsger), a small rock approximately 5 miles (8 km) west of St Davids...
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A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon...
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Flannan Isles Lighthouse is a lighthouse near the highest point on Eilean Mòr, one of the Flannan Isles in the Outer Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland...
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Þrídrangaviti Lighthouse (transliterated as Thridrangaviti) is an active lighthouse 7.2 kilometres (4.5 miles) off the southwest coast of Iceland, in...
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Fair Isle (redirect from Fair Isle South Lighthouse)
the South Fair Isle lighthouse and used by Northern Lighthouse Board and HM Coastguard helicopters, and the other at the North Fair Isle lighthouse. There...
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria, sometimes called the Pharos of Alexandria (/ˈfɛərɒs/ FAIR-oss; Ancient Greek: ὁ Φάρος τῆς Ἀλεξανδρείας, romanized: ho Pháros...
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The South Stack Lighthouse is built on the summit of a small island off the north-west coast of Holy Island, Anglesey, Wales. It was built in 1809 to warn...
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South Point Lighthouse is a lighthouse located in the south of Barbados. Its height is 89 feet (27 m). It is the oldest lighthouse in Barbados. It was...
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Little Ross (redirect from Little Ross lighthouse)
other lighthouses at the Mull of Galloway and Southerness. It is approximately 66 feet tall. In the 1900s, the island was home to the head lighthouse keeper...
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The Macquarie Lighthouse, also known as South Head Upper Light, is the first, and is the longest serving, lighthouse site in Australia. It is located on...
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list of lighthouses in Scotland. The Northern Lighthouse Board, from which much of the information is derived, are responsible for most lighthouses in Scotland...
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The lighthouse and naval vessel urban legend describes an encounter between a large naval ship and what at first appears to be another vessel, with which...
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South Gare Lighthouse was built in 1884 at the end of the breakwater at South Gare north west of Redcar in North Yorkshire and in north eastern England...
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Edison Lighthouse are an English pop band, formed in London in 1969. The band was best known for their 1970 hit single "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)"...
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The Eddystone Lighthouse is a lighthouse on the Eddystone Rocks, 9 statute miles (14 km) south of Rame Head in Cornwall, England. The rocks are submerged...
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Nividic Lighthouse (Phare de Nividic) is one of five major lighthouses on Ouessant island in Brittany. The others are the Phare du Créac'h, the Stiff lighthouse...
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Point Danger Light (redirect from Point Danger Lighthouse)
active lighthouse located on Point Danger, a headland between Coolangatta and Tweed Heads, marking the border between Queensland and New South Wales,...
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Knott family (redirect from Knott family of lighthouse keepers)
of lighthouse keepers is credited with the longest period of continuous service in the history of staffed lighthouses, commencing in 1730 at South Foreland...
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The Morris Island Lighthouse is a lighthouse on Morris Island in South Carolina. The light stands on the southern side of the entrance to Charleston Harbor...
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from the ground up. The island has eight beaches, including Lighthouse Bay, North Beach, South Beach, Bimini Beach, areas near the lagoon, and a beach reserved...
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Look up lighthouse in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A lighthouse is a tower aiding marine navigation. Light House, Lighthouse, or The Lighthouse may also...
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War Graves Commission. "Bell Rock Bicentennial : Biographies". "Southerness Lighthouse". Engineering Timelines. Rosebank Cemetery, Royal Commission on...
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Wilsons Promontory Lighthouse is situated on South East Point, Wilsons Promontory, Victoria, Australia. From its point on the peninsula, it commands almost...
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This is a list of lighthouses in England. It includes lighthouses which are no longer in use as a light but are still standing. It also includes some...
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