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* 1900 – A relief crew arrives at the lighthouse on the Flannan Isles of Scotland, only to find the previous crew has disappeared without a trace.
French archeologists led by Jean-Yves Empereur discovered remains of the lighthouse in late 1994 on the floor of Alexandria's Eastern Harbour.
The secretariat of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage are currently working with the Government of Egypt on an initiative to add the bay of Alexandria ( to include remains of the lighthouse ) on a World Heritage List of submerged cultural sites.
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.
Image: Old Lighthouse Waitemata Harbour. jpg | A rarer type of lighthouse on stilts in the Hauraki Gulf of New Zealand.
* There is a historic stone lighthouse located on Cumberland Head, which is privately owned.
* The privately owned Isle La Motte lighthouse on the northern end of the island was originally red, but it faded to pink over time.
The breakwater has a lighthouse on its western end and a beacon with a spherical cage on top at the eastern end.
The 1852 lighthouse on Grand Turk
During his reign, in 1868 the Italian government began operating a lighthouse on the northeast end of the island.
* Claudius begins construction of Portus, the harbour bears a lighthouse and is sited on the right bank of the Tiber.
* 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.
A lighthouse on the south-east corner of the peninsula is the southern-most lighthouse on mainland Australia and has operated continuously since 1859.
* 1872 – The Blackwell Island Light, a Gothic style lighthouse now on the National Register of Historic Places, is built by convict labor on the island's northern tip under Renwick's supervision.
* Marblehead Lighthouse, the oldest lighthouse in continuous operation on the Great Lakes

lighthouse and Raspberry
* Raspberry Island-dock, ranger station, and lighthouse

lighthouse and Island
One popular cruise is from Caletilla Beach to Roqueta Island, which has places to snorkel, have lunch, a small zoo and a lighthouse.
Recently, a lighthouse played a pivotal role in Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, and was featured in the final shot of the film.
* Stratford Shoal Light, a lighthouse in Long Island Sound, Connectucut
( Coast Guard may excess lighthouse on Falkner Island, in Long Island Sound )" by Nick Ravo, the New York Times ( August 15, 1993 )
Ownership over the very small, uninhabited Turtle Island in remote Lake Erie was disputed for decades after the island's lighthouse was shut down.
Some time before 1144, a monastic order began using Looe Island, and built a chapel there ; the monks may have provided a rudimentary lighthouse service using beacons.
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 Bois Blanc Island Light lighthouse ( 1867 ) survives on the northern shore of the island ; it is not open to the public.
At the Tuckerton Seaport Museum a re-created lighthouse has been built as well as other re-created buildings that were on Tuckers Island.
Proposals for construction of a second lighthouse on Bald Head Island started in 1889 with the suggestion that a 150 ft tall, 18. 5 mi visibility, masonry tower be built at a cost of $ 150, 000.
View of Bald Head Island from Old Baldy lighthouse
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.
However, it was not until the 1870s that Camp Yerba Buena Island was completed, including a fog signal and octagonal lighthouse called Yerba Buena Light ( 1875 ) that remain today.
* Round Island Light ( Michigan ), a lighthouse on the above island
* Holland Island Bar Light, U. S. lighthouse

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At Pharos — in Hellenistic times the site of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, ( in modern Greek the word still has the meaning " lighthouse )— a king of Egypt named Proteus welcomed Dionysus in the young god's wanderings.
The Ilhéu dos Pássaros, an islet at the entry of the Porto Grande, is above sea level and has a lighthouse.
Clinton's disturbed brother Doyle is still on the governor's payroll as the keeper of a lighthouse that has not been in use for years.
This lighthouse and weather station has been unmanned since 1977.
The land route to the lighthouse was destroyed by Hurricane Betsy in 1965, and it has since been accessible only by boat.
Manistique was founded where the Manistique River flows into Lake Michigan, forming somewhat of a natural harbor, which has since been improved with breakwaters, dredging, and a lighthouse.
It has a lighthouse and a KNRM rescue station.
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.
A former part of the fort, Store Tårn on Christiansø has housed a lighthouse for the past 200 years, and a small round tower on Frederiksø, Lille Tårn, serves as a museum.
The northern reach of this river is the Baltimore Harbor, where the now-decommissioned lighthouse has been placed as a museum.
The provision of a lighthouse has often been used as the standard example of a public good, since it is difficult to exclude ships from using its services.
The town has several attractions including an award winning sand beach, a major harbour, the lighthouse museum, heritage centre and a variety of amenities and facilities.
Holmengrå has a 160-metre tall lighthouse.
The island of Vannøya has several picturesque villages, notably Burøysund and Torsvåg, the latter offering a wonderful view of the Atlantic from the lighthouse.
Josh tells Reva that he is leaving Springfield for a job for the next year, but proposes that he will return one year from that date, and if by that time, she wants to reunite with him, she should meet him at the lighthouse, and if she is not there, he will assume she has moved on without him.
The cafeteria has a lighthouse design representative of the North's rugged coastline.
Near the beach there is a lighthouse, named " Faro de Ciudad Madero "-although this has been replaced by a red beacon light atop a small tower, to guide approaching ships in to the channel of the Río Pánuco.

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