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.

The second spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present, takes Scrooge to several differing scenes-a joy-filled market of people buying the makings of Christmas dinner, the celebration of Christmas in a miner's cottage, and a lighthouse.

This was the second lighthouse in Scotland.

The Ponce Inlet Lighthouse is the tallest lighthouse in Florida and the second tallest lighthouse in the nation.

In 1868, a second lighthouse was rebuilt, with kerosene lamps.

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.

It is the second oldest lighthouse on the German Baltic Sea coast after the Travemünde Lighthouse.

The harbour grew more accessible with the construction of the second Louisbourg Lighthouse in 1842 on the site of the original French lighthouse destroyed in 1758.

A second nest features a lighthouse that contains a foghorn that is blasted before the game, for Wild goals and after a win.

At the same time as the railway was being built more improvements were being made to the harbour, with a second pier on the eastern side of the harbour, the Albert Pier, completed in 1853 to provide even better shelter for shipping, and a lighthouse built on the Old Pier in 1855.

A second lighthouse is located at the entrance to the harbor on Punta Areanas, a sand spit partially sheltering the waterfront of Bahía.

From here, the Antrim coast is visible and an historic lighthouse, the second commissioned in Scotland, guides shipping in the intervening North Channel.

The Mull of Kintyre Lighthouse was the second lighthouse commissioned in Scotland by the Commissioners of the Northern Lights.

The fort of Dùn Briste ( the broken fort ) lies to the north west and a second site nearby dating to the Iron Age was largely destroyed during the construction of the lighthouse.

The lighthouse was built in 1859 and was the second lighthouse built in Victoria.

The first sequence, showing the lighthouse with a blue sky, was used from January 1970 to spring 1974 ; the second sequence, showing the lighthouse with an orange sky, was used from spring 1974 to November 1975.

The first Eddystone Lighthouse was destroyed on 27 November 1703 ( Old Style ), killing six occupants, including its builder Henry Winstanley ( John Rudyard was later contracted to build the second lighthouse on the site ).

The original Cape Spear lighthouse was the second lighthouse built in Newfoundland ; the first was built in 1810 at Fort Amherst, at the entrance to St. John's Harbour.

It is the second tallest in Britain, second only to the Eddystone Lighthouse and altogether the money spent on reaching this lighthouse we have today has been:

* The second granite lighthouse: ...................£ 34, 559 (£ as of )

* Marblehead Lighthouse, the oldest lighthouse in continuous operation on the Great Lakes

It is home to the abandoned prison, the site of the oldest operating lighthouse on the west coast of the United States, early military fortifications, and natural features such as rock pools and a seabird colony ( mostly Western Gulls, cormorants, and egrets ).

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

It was completed on February 25, 1886 which made it the oldest operating lighthouse in the Caribbean until 1975, when the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard finally closed the facility.

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

The city is also known as the location of the Point Pinos Lighthouse, the oldest continuously-operating lighthouse on the West Coast, Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History, located in the historic downtown, the Stowitts Museum & Library and one of the filming locations for Roger Spottiswoode's 1989 film Turner and Hooch.

" Old Baldy ", its out-of-service lighthouse, is the oldest still standing in the state, built in 1817.

Old Baldy Lighthouse now stands as the oldest lighthouse in North Carolina, having survived neglect, war and weather.

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.

Leasowe Lighthouse was built in 1763 by Liverpool Corporation's Docks Committee ( the forerunner of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board ) and is the oldest brick-built lighthouse in Britain.

* The Seven Foot Knoll Light was built in 1856 and is the oldest screwpile lighthouse in Maryland.

* Carysfort Reef Light, four miles east of Key Largo, Florida, was built in 1852 and is the oldest screw-pile ( with disk ) lighthouse still in service in the United States.

The arms show the local lighthouse, the oldest lighthouse in Norway.

The lighthouse of Breskens is the oldest remaining cast-iron lighthouse in the Netherlands.

It is currently the oldest functioning lighthouse in Japan and is now a National Historic Monument.

Built in 1674, this is the oldest surviving complete lighthouse in England

Bell Rock Lighthouse is the world's oldest surviving sea-washed lighthouse and was built on Bell Rock ( also known as Inchcape ) in the North Sea, off the coast of Angus, Scotland, east of the Firth of Tay.

The building which sits on Lantern Hill by the harbour, known as St Nicholas's Chapel ( built 1361 ) is reputed to be the oldest working lighthouse in the UK ; a light / beacon has been there for over 650 years.

Cape Moreton Light, Queensland's oldest lighthouse

At Cape Moreton is Queensland's oldest lighthouse, Cape Moreton Light, which was first lit in 1857.

Being a centre of maritime traffic, the district of Warnemünde comprises numerous navigational aids, the oldest is the lighthouse, which is currently still in use.