Haggling over lighthouse's specifications mired down the process and another survey was done.

Under the lantern room sits a water tank which was used to store rainfall for use in the lighthouse's accommodation.

In the 20th century a solar panel was installed in the lighthouse's column, providing a field of vision.

The lighthouse's original name was " North Unst ", but in 1964 that was changed to " Muckle Flugga ".< ref >

After the build was complete, the lighthouse's illumination of 24 candles were first lit on 16 October 1759.

Helen Keller was a common visitor to the lighthouse's annual dinners during the 1940s and 1950s.

The lighthouse's design was based on the 1767 Cape Henlopen Light.

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.

View over Cape Point ; the lighthouse's white dome is just visible.

Image: South_cornerstone_in_sea_wall. jpg | The boundary cornerstone is located in the lighthouse's sea wall.

The lighthouse's visitor book, containing the signature of Virginia Stephen ( Woolf ), is to go on sale at Bonhams on 22 November 2011.

Steinhice took the lighthouse's small motorboat and made his way out in the direction of the tug's distress whistle.

Visitors can walk to the Head where the lighthouse's buildings, though still in good repair, are not open to the public.

On the way, MAC has placed interpretive exhibits about the lighthouse's history, the lives of the former keepers, and other maritime history of the Jersey Cape.

A number of rounds were fired, breaking 15 of the lighthouse's windows and several parts of the historic Fresnel lens.

The lighthouse's resonating fog horn attracts a sea monster who destroys the place.

Today owned by the National Trust and open to the public, the lighthouse's engine room, light tower and keeper's living quarters are all on view.

Seeing an approaching ship, Homer destroys the lighthouse's light in hopes that it will cause the boat to come closer and the people inside will befriend him.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

After the first two were blacked out, the third light was abandoned by a terrified Italian crew, who left their light to shine for nine minutes like an unerring homing beacon until British MP's shot it out.

The distinctive round window high in the south transept was originally lit up at night as a beacon for mariners.

The beacon was partially destroyed during early World War II by the Japanese attacks, but was rebuilt in the early 1960s by men from the U. S. Coast Guard ship Blackhaw.

By 2000, the beacon was reported to be crumbling and it had not been painted in decades.

One stormy night a high wind extinguished the beacon, and Leander was drowned.

Phosphate and copra entrepreneur John T. Arundel visited the island in 1909 and near the beach landing on the western shore a tumbled, pyramidal day beacon made from slats of wood was repaired, painted white and stood at least until 1942.

Starting out as a cluster of large, open tents pitched next to the still-standing white wooden day beacon, the Millersville settlement on the island's western shore was named after a bureaucrat with the United States Department of Air Commerce.

After the Muslims took over all of Egypt, the top of the Pharos supposedly became a mosque, as the beacon was no longer in working order.

When the Romulan / Cardassian fleet arrived at the Founders ' homeworld, they bombarded it, only to realize that the planet was deserted except for a token beacon.

The narrator hypothesises that this " sentinel " was left on the moon as a " warning beacon " for possible intelligent and spacefaring species that might develop on Earth.

The scheme was seen as an early example of what some saw as Tony Blair's often excessive optimism, who stated at the Dome's opening: " In the Dome we have a creation that, I believe, will truly be a beacon to the world ".

It was intended that the spacecraft would provide a radio beacon for precision landings of manned spacecraft.

The Vanguard satellite was thrown clear and landed on the ground a short distance away with its transmitters still sending out a beacon signal.

Torriano Avenue, dating back to 1848, is a popular Kentish Town street being home to Pete Stanley, one of the country's best-known bluegrass banjo players, British actor Bill Nighy, The Torriano Poets, a beacon of culture where local poets have met for over 20 years and still hold weekly public poetry readings on Sunday evenings ; its founder was John Rety.

Higher up the village, the Church of St Nicholas has two towers: the main tower is over 100 ft ( 30 m ) high and a well-known landmark for miles around, and the smaller tower was built as a beacon to guide boats into Blakeney harbour.

With its ample supply of water and prosperous trading center, it truly was a shining beacon and sanctuary in the desert for those thousands of travelers who depended upon its resources for their survival.

Old Baldy was downgraded from a lighthouse to a navigational radio beacon in 1935.

This lighthouse was of utmost importance because it controlled the nighttime pass ; whoever governed the light beacon regulated the night time passageway.

The old naval navigation tower ( German: Peilturm ) was built in 1927 of brick and acted as an marine navigation beacon.

* The Nantucket Lightship LV-117 was rammed and sunk in 1934 by RMS Olympic homing in on its radio beacon, with a loss of seven out of a crew of eleven.

The original method was to place a spinning mirror which moves around a light bulb, called a " rotating beacon ".

The beacon system was widely used in the post-war era for blind bombing systems.