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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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