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These photos show iconic lighthouses around the world, from India to Scotland. The Tower of Hercules in Spain is the oldest operating lighthouse in the world. It dates back to the late 1st century AD.
Deactivated. 1939. Focal height. 24 m (79 ft) Characteristic. Fl W 2.5s. The Green Island Light is a lighthouse located on Green Island in Lake Erie, U.S. state of Ohio, to the west of the Bass Islands. Abandoned since its deactivation in 1939, it survives as a hollow shell near the existing skeleton tower. [1]
The history of Bass Harbor Head Light dates to 1855, when it was determined that there was sufficient reason for a lighthouse at the mouth of Bass Harbor. In 1855, the U.S. Congress appropriated $5,000 for construction of the lighthouse. In 1876, construction was completed on a fog bell and tower, since removed. [ 2]
Marblehead Light (Ohio) / 41.536444°N 82.711722°W / 41.536444; -82.711722. Marblehead Lighthouse in Marblehead, Ohio, United States, is the oldest lighthouse in continuous operation on the American side of the Great Lakes. [ 3][ 4][ 5] It has guided sailors safely along the rocky shores of Marblehead Peninsula since 1822, and is an ...
The Bass Rock, or simply the Bass[ 5] ( / bæs / ), ( Scottish Gaelic: Creag nam Bathais or Scottish Gaelic: Am Bas) is an island in the outer part of the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland. Approximately 2 km (1 mi) offshore, and 5 km (3 mi) north-east of North Berwick, it is a steep-sided volcanic plug, 107 m (351 ft) at its highest point ...
The Bass Rock Lighthouse on Bass Rock is a 20-metre (66 ft) lighthouse, built in 1902 by David Stevenson, who demolished the 13th-century keep, or governor's house, and some other buildings within the castle for the stone. The commissioners of the Northern Lighthouse Board decided that a lighthouse should be erected on the Bass Rock in July ...
South Bass Island Light. / 41.6290; -82.8415. South Bass Island Light is a lighthouse on the southern end of its eponymous island in Lake Erie. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on April 5, 1990 [ 1] and is thought to be the only lighthouse in the United States owned by a university - Ohio State. [ 2][ 3]
Eigg lighthouse is an active lighthouse located on the south-eastern corner of the islet of Eilean Chathastail, one of the smaller Small Isles about 110 metres (360 ft) off Eigg. [139] The lighthouse was built in 1906 to a design by David A. and Charles Alexander Stevenson ; it is a cylindrical metal tower only 8 metres (26 ft) high with ...