* The privately owned Isle La Motte lighthouse on the northern end of the island was originally red, but it faded to pink over time.

During his reign, in 1868 the Italian government began operating a lighthouse on the northeast end of the island.

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.

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.

Often referred to as " The Rock ," the small island was developed with facilities for a lighthouse, a military fortification, a military prison ( 1868 ), and a federal prison from 1933 until 1963.

Since 1855, the prominent black and white Kampen lighthouse is located between Kampen and Wenningstedt, it is the oldest one on the island.

* A 110 metre tall lighthouse on the island of Pharos in Alexandria's harbour is completed and serves as a landmark for ships in the eastern Mediterranean.

The lighthouse lies on a broad raised beach on the western shore of the island looking out into the Firth.

There is a walking track that takes in the northern end of the island, the lighthouse on the north-west point which overlooks Little Fitzroy Island, and the island's peak, which offers stunning 360 degree views over the surrounding reefs and Cape Grafton.

The island is home to Queensland's oldest operating lighthouse located at Cape Moreton on the northern tip of the island.

During his reign, in 1861 the Italian government paid 12, 000 lire for land at the northeast end of the island to build a lighthouse, which began operating in 1868.

In 1824, a conical stone lighthouse was built on the island by order of Congress and President James Monroe.

It is also the site of United States Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England ( formerly USCG Group Woods Hole ), the Nobska Light lighthouse, and the terminus of the Steamship Authority ferry route between Cape Cod and the island of Martha's Vineyard.

The Bois Blanc Island Light lighthouse ( 1867 ) survives on the northern shore of the island ; it is not open to the public.

The northernmost of the channel range lights was the Grosse Ile Light, which is presently the only lighthouse remaining on the island.

Together with the lighthouse island near Durgerdam and the artillery battery at the Diemer seawall, it was meant to protect the entrance of the IJ Bay and the harbour of Amsterdam.

The island was wiped away in a storm including its majestic lighthouse which fell into the sea.

On the island farthest from land, the lighthouse of Dämman was built in 1873 ; an automatic lighthouse has replaced its function, but the house itself is visited by tourists and conferences.

The island was known as O ' Sullivan's Island because of Captain Florence O ' Sullivan, who was stationed here as a lighthouse keeper in the late seventeenth century.

* Round Island Light ( Michigan ), a lighthouse on the above island

Large groups of seals can be seen at the north of Stroma, from the lighthouse round to the north-west part of the island and at the south end in the area of the beacon and to the east between the old jetty and the lighthouse.

From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.

He was born in the small Danish town of Rudkoebing on the island of Langeland in the south-central part of Denmark on August 14, 1777.

One female, collected on an island off the coast of Nicaragua, was gravid and measured 4 feet 8 inches from snout to vent ( her tail should be between 6 and 7 inches long ).

On the second voyage, he had turned back at the frozen island of Novaya Zemlya and meekly given the crew a certificate stating that he did so of his own free will -- which was obviously not the case.

The most infamous of all was launched by the explosion of the island of Krakatoa in 1883 ; ;

She promised that she would soon take a few day's leave and visit the uncle she had never seen, on the island of Oyajima -- which was not very far from Yokosuka.

In association with his birthplace, Mount Cynthus on the island of Delos, Apollo was called Cynthius ( ; Κύνθιος, Kunthios, literally " Cynthian "), Cynthogenes ( ; Κύνθογενης, Kunthogenēs, literally " born of Cynthus "), and Delius ( ; Δήλιος, Delios, literally " Delian ").

In her wanderings, Leto found the newly created floating island of Delos, which was neither mainland nor a real island.

Mythographers agree that Artemis was born first and then assisted with the birth of Apollo, or that Artemis was born one day before Apollo, on the island of Ortygia and that she helped Leto cross the sea to Delos the next day to give birth to Apollo.

The sea was traditionally known as Archipelago ( in Greek, Αρχιπέλαγος, meaning " chief sea "), but in English this word's meaning has changed to refer to the Aegean Islands and, generally, to any island group.

The legend connected with its foundation is given by Peter Damiani in his Life of St Odilo: a pilgrim returning from the Holy Land was cast by a storm on a desolate island.

The first community established by him was at Tabennae, an island of the Nile in Upper Egypt.

‘ … The development of Japan's large northern island had several objectives: First, it was seen as a means to defend Japan from a rapidly developing and expansionist Russia.

In addition to this, the land the Ainu lived on was distributed to the Wajin who had decided to move to Hokkaido, who had been encouraged by the Japanese government of the Meiji era to take advantage of the island ’ s abundance of natural resources, and to create and maintain farms in the model of western industrial agriculture.

The island of Hokkaido was known to the Ainu as Ainu Moshir, and was formally annexed by the Japanese at the late date of 1868, partly as a means of preventing the intrusion of the Russians, and partly for imperialist reasons.

She was banished on Tiberius ’ orders to the island of Pandataria ( now called Ventotene ) in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the coast of Campania.

This was the island where her mother was banished.

Ajax, who in the post-Homeric legend is described as the grandson of Aeacus and the great-grandson of Zeus, was the tutelary hero of the island of Salamis, where he had a temple and an image, and where a festival called Aianteia was celebrated in his honour.

The identification of Ajax with the family of Aeacus was chiefly a matter which concerned the Athenians, after Salamis had come into their possession, on which occasion Solon is said to have inserted a line in the Iliad ( 2. 557 – 558 ), for the purpose of supporting the Athenian claim to the island.

In 960 Nikephoros Phokas was sent with a fleet of 1, 000 dromons, 2, 000 chelandia, and 308 transports ( entire fleet was manned by 27, 000 oarsmen and marines ) carrying 50, 000 men to recover Crete from the Muslims After a difficult campaign and the 9-month siege of Chandax, Nikephoros successfully re-established Byzantine control over the entire island in 961.

A manned lookout at Bathurst Point included a signalling station which relayed shipping information between Wadjemup Lighthouse at the centre of the island and Arthur Head at Fremantle.

When they returned to Tubuai they built a fort on the Northeast part of the island at Ta ' ahueia, manned with cannon and swivel gun which they named Fort George.

Testimonies from this period are from those who manned the watchtowers on the sea, which became the symbol of the island.

* In 1887, the Coast Guard established 11 manned lifesaving stations on the island.

After the Omani conquest, the French built and manned a fort at the northern tip of the island, but the city itself was abandoned in the 1840s.

British barges manned by sailors, Royal Marines, and the other company of Independent Foreigners then attempted to attack the eastern side of the island.

The Norwegian Meteorological Institute ( Norges Meteorologiske Institutt ) operates a manned weather station on the island with a staff of four persons.

The island is manned by a staff of eight sailors of the Indian Navy who keep in touch with the mainland through radio communications.

One of the first manned stations, " Knospe ", was established in the inner part of Krossfjorden in the main island late 1941 under the command of H. R.

In the case of San Fratello, some linguists have suggested that the Gallo-Italic dialect present today has Provençal as its basis, having been a fort manned by Provençal mercenaries in the early decades of the Norman conquest ( bearing in mind that it took the Normans 30 years to conquer the whole of the island ).

The United States Coast Guard maintained a manned LORAN station on the island during the 1940s.

Although the station maintains the DLR philosophy of design, it makes concessions to cater for airport passengers, including a fully enclosed waiting room on the central island platform and, unusually for the DLR, a manned ticket office.

From the inauguration until the installation of the automated light, the lighthouse was manned by a small staff of lighthouse keepers, who constituted the total population of the island.