* Homborsund lighthouse, Grimstad ( 1879 )

This lighthouse and weather station has been unmanned since 1977.

The southernmost tip is known as Spurn Head or Spurn Point and is the home to an RNLI lifeboat station and disused lighthouse.

The lighthouse keepers ' dwellings and other historic light station buildings are now home to the lighthouse museum, with exhibits on lighthouse life, lighthouse and Fresnel lens restoration, the keepers and their families, Daytona Beach and Florida history, and shipwrecks.

Just south of the lighthouse is a Coast Guard radar station, equipped with a Doppler radar tower, close to the nearby Jenny Lind Tower.

It has a lighthouse and a KNRM rescue station.

In addition to the lighthouse, the town continues to maintain a United States Coast Guard station, reflecting the continued presence of the former United States Life-Saving Service.

Marblehead is also home to a United States Coast Guard station, and to the Marblehead Lighthouse, the oldest continuously operating lighthouse on the Great Lakes.

The line runs from the Cinque Port of Hythe via Dymchurch, St. Mary's Bay, New Romney and Romney Sands to Dungeness, close to Dungeness nuclear power station and Dungeness lighthouse.

There is a lighthouse, lifeboat station and coastwatch station on Riverside Road.

* Inner / Outer Dowsing ( North Sea ; Inner Dowsing was the last manned lightship station, replaced by the Dowsing lighthouse in 1991 )

A stone lighthouse and radio station were eventually built in the headland, with the former named after Francesco Crispi.

Such a system also demanded much greater accuracies in the measurements-an error of one degree in angle might be reasonable when taking a fix on a lighthouse a few miles away, but would be of limited use when used on a radio station 300 miles away.

The lighthouse operated in tandem with a shore station, the Bell Rock Signal Tower, built in 1813 at the mouth of Arbroath harbour.

On Pointe Double, you can see a lighthouse and a weather station.

Part of the lighthouse station houses the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum, which includes artifacts from the above shipwrecks and information on the wreck of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

On May 5, 1945, at 5: 40 p. m., the U-853 torpedoed the collier, SS Black Point, en route to Boston, She was within sight of the United States Coast Guard lighthouse station at Point Judith.

German planes frequently flew over at low altitudes, machine gunning the Grunay lighthouse shore station in 1941 and dropping a bomb in 1942.

In 1972, the lighthouse was converted to electric operation, and a helicopter landing pad was built near the station to facilitate maintenance and the changeover of keepers.

A light station was established in the early 18th century and a lighthouse built in 1815.

As the sea receded further, and after building the nuclear power station which obscured the light of the 1904 lighthouse, a fifth lighthouse had to be built.

One popular cruise is from Caletilla Beach to Roqueta Island, which has places to snorkel, have lunch, a small zoo and a lighthouse.

Interestingly, this ACT exclave surrounds a small exclave of NSW territory, namely the Point Perpendicular lighthouse which is at the southern tip of the Beecroft Peninsula.

It is shaped somewhat like a short lighthouse ( with no illumination ).

The lighthouse remains a civic symbol of the city of Alexandria and of the Alexandria Governorate with which the city is more or less coterminous.

A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and used as an aid to navigation for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.

In a lighthouse, the source of light is called the " lamp " ( whether electric or fueled by oil ) and the concentration of the light is by the " lens " or " optic ".

* There is a historic stone lighthouse located on Cumberland Head, which is privately owned.

* On Point Au Roche, part of Beekmantown, New York, there is a privately owned, historic lighthouse.

* 1859 – The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse is lit for the first time.

Germany's smallest lighthouse is located here, being also the only one with a thatched roof.

Used horizontally, a sextant can measure the apparent angle between two landmarks such as a lighthouse and a church spire, which can then be used to find the distance off or out to sea ( provided the distance between the two landmarks is known ).

This phenomenon is known as elastic scattering, and the electron ( or lighthouse ) is known as the scatterer.

* November 1 – The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse is lighted for the first time ( its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for 19 miles ).

* 785 – 805: Chinese geographer Jia Dan describes large lighthouse pillars built in the Persian Gulf, which is confirmed a century later by al-Mas ' udi and al-Muqaddasi.

* Claudius begins construction of Portus, the harbour bears a lighthouse and is sited on the right bank of the Tiber.

Once a flourishing small community with a lighthouse, the island was destroyed by coastal erosion and now exists as a shoal that is exposed at low tide.

The northernmost point of the Weser is marked by the Alte Weser lighthouse.

* The Sea Captain on The Simpsons uses the title as an exclamation when his ship is about to hit a lighthouse in the 1997 episode El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer.

On the west side of the island is Keahole Point lighthouse ; NGS data predicts the lighthouse's lat-lon by the stars will come out to 19. 7244 N 156. 0787 W. Based on the astro lat-lons the distance from the Hilo water tank to the Keahole Point lighthouse calculates to be 108. 8 km, but the actual distance turns out to be 105. 5 km.

The uses of these islands vary: Davids ' Island, the former location of the U. S. Army ’ s Fort Slocum, is currently unoccupied but is slated for use as passive parkland ; Glen Island is a County park for passive and active recreation ; Huckleberry Island is largely undeveloped and has one of the largest rookeries for some shore bird species in western Long Island Sound ; Columbia Island was the former site of CBS television broadcast antennas and is currently unoccupied ; Echo Island is used by a private yacht club ; Execution Rocks is the site of a 19th century lighthouse listed on the National Register of Historic Places ; Pea Island is owned by Huguenot Yacht Club but remains undeveloped ; Goose Island is undeveloped ; Clifford, Harrison and Tank Islands are part of a nature preserve and city park ; and Oak and Pine Islands are used as private residences.