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Barra Head Lighthouse on Barra Head identifies the southern entrance to The Minch, roughly halfway between the Eilean Glas and Rinns of Islay lighthouses. The 58-foot (18-metre) stone tower, built in 1833, stands on the west side of the island, at the top of a very steep cliff, making the light the highest in the UK with a focal plane of 208 m (682 ft) above sea level.
Barra Head, Berneray. Barra Head, also known as Berneray (Scottish Gaelic: Beàrnaraigh; Scots: Barra Heid), is the southernmost island of the Outer Hebrides in Scotland. Within the Outer Hebrides, it forms part of the Barra Isles archipelago. Originally, Barra Head only referred to the southernmost headland of Berneray but is now a common name ...
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The lighthouse was built at the center of the Santo Antônio da Barra Fort. [1] [2] [3] The current lighthouse is the second built the site. The first was built of taipa, and was the second built in the Americas, after the old Friborg Palace in Recife. The current structure was built in 1839 and dedicated by Dom Pedro II of Brazil. It is ...
This is a list of lighthouses in Scotland.The Northern Lighthouse Board, from which much of the information is derived, [1] are responsible for most lighthouses in Scotland but have handed over responsibility in the major estuaries to the port authorities.
Barra Head Lighthouse, Keeper's House, Graveyard, Ancillary Structures, Garden And Boundary Walls 56°47′08″N 7°39′12″W / 56.785426°N 7.653252°W / 56.785426; -7.653252 ( Barra Head Lighthouse, Keeper's House, Graveyard, Ancillary Structures, Garden And Boundary
Barra (/ ˈ b ær ə /; Scottish Gaelic: Barraigh or Eilean Bharraigh [ˈelan ˈvarˠaj] ⓘ; Scots: Barra) is an island in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, and the second southernmost inhabited island there, after the adjacent island of Vatersay to which it is connected by the Vatersay Causeway. In 2011, the population was 1,174.
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