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At 82.5 metres (271 ft), Île Vierge Lighthouse (right) is the tallest lighthouse in Europe. It is also the tallest "traditional" lighthouse in the world. [4] [5] Note: Click on the country or place name of your choice in the table below to link you to lighthouses in that area.
Boston Light, the oldest light station and second oldest lighthouse structure in the US Charleston Light, the last manned lighthouse built on shore in the United States. This is a list of lighthouses in the United States. The United States has had approximately a thousand lights as well as light towers, range lights, and pier head lights.
The history of Alaskan lighthouses predates the Seward purchase: the Russians erected a light at Sitka, in Baranof Castle (located on Castle Hill); this light was found unnecessary by the Lighthouse Service and discontinued, but was taken over by the army and maintained by them until 1877. [1]
Thridrangar lighthouse, known as one of the most isolated lighthouses in the world, was originally built by hand between 1938 and 1939 and at the time was accessible only by scaling Image credits ...
The Whitefish Point Light is a lighthouse located in Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Michigan. [11] Located on the southeastern shores of Lake Superior, it sits at the edge of Whitefish Point leading to Whitefish Bay. Constructed in 1849 by congress, it is the oldest operating lighthouse in the Upper Peninsula. [12]
Davaar Lighthouse Argyll and Bute: 1854 [4] Duncansby Head Lighthouse Duncansby Head: 1924: Dunnet Head Lighthouse Dunnet Head: 1831 [5] Fidra Lighthouse East Lothian [6] 1885 [7] Fife Ness Lighthouse Fife Ness: 1975 [8] Girdleness Lighthouse Aberdeen: 1833 [9] Holy Isle Inner Lighthouse North Ayrshire: 1877: Holy Isle Outer Lighthouse North ...
Sheringham Point Lighthouse Green Island Lighthouse, St. Lawrence middle estuary. This is a list of lighthouses in Canada.These may naturally be divided into lighthouses on the Pacific coast, on the Arctic Ocean, in the Hudson Bay watershed, on the Labrador Sea and Gulf of St. Lawrence, in the St. Lawrence River watershed (including the Great Lakes), and on the Atlantic seaboard.
Name Image Location & coordinates Year built Tower height (in metres) Focal height ( in metres) Admiralty number; Alderney Lighthouse : Alderney 49°43′45″N 2°9′51″W