Lighthouses

History of Lighthouses

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Lighthouses today

New England Lighthouses

Northern Lighthouse Board UK

Florida Lighthouse Association

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Lighthouse Museums

National Lighthouse Museum

Scottish Lighthouse Museum

Ponce Inlet Lighthouse Museum

Shore Village Museum - Maine's Lighthouse Museum

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Private Lighthouse Pages

Florida Lighthouse Page - An accurately recording of their history and current condition by Neil Hurley.
The Lighthouse Directory
Outer Banks Lighthouse Society
Rudy and Alice's Lighthouse Page

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Dates and figures

Tallest Lighthouse: The steel Marine Tower at Yamashita Park in Yokohama, Japan is 106 m (348 ft) high. It has a visibility range of 32 km (20 miles) and an observatory 100 m (328 ft) above the ground. Visitors can see Japan's Mount Fuji froim the observatory.

Asia's oldest lighthouse
The Bell Rock Lighthouse
Robert Stevenson's Bell Rock Lighthouse was created off the east coast of Scotland between 1807 and 1811, when the world was very different from how it is today. Stevenson, the grandfather of Robert Louis Stevenson, had dreamed for years of making his mark on the world, by bringing light to the treacherous Scottish coast. He aimed to take on the most dangerous place of all, the Bell Rock, a large reef 11 miles out to sea, dangerously positioned in the approach to the Firth of Forth.

In 1799, over 70 ships went down in a violent storm that raged along the coast, yet still the authorities opposed his plan. How could anyone build a lighthouse 11 miles out to sea, on a rock that was submerged by up to 16 feet of water for most of the day? Battling against the odds, Stevenson did eventually build his lighthouse, and to this day it shines out across the North Sea, the oldest offshore lighthouse still standing anywhere in the world.

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Literatur about Lighthouses from amazon.com

The Ultimate Book of Lighthouses (Paid link) by Samuel Willard Compton, Michael J. Rhein
America's Atlantic Coast Lighthouses (Paid link) by Ken Kochel, Jeremy D' Entremont
Lighthouses of the United States (Revised Second Edition) (Paid link) by Peter D. Bachelder, Robert Hartnett
The Lighthouse Almanac (Paid link) by Elinor DeWire

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