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Les Eclaireurs Lighthouse (the French name "Les Éclaireurs" means "the Scouts") is a slightly conically shaped lighthouse standing on the northeasternmost island of the five or more Les Eclaireurs islands, which it takes its name from, 5 nautical miles (9 km) east of Ushuaia in the Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, southern Argentina.
The new Somes Island lighthouse was commissioned on 21 February 1900. [3] The lighthouse was automated on 1 April 1924 with the installation of a flashing Dalén light supplied by the AGA company. The light used an acetylene burning lamp combined with a solar sensor which automatically operates the light only during darkness.
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Due to erosion, the light was decommissioned in 1918. The tower was disassembled in 1921, and reassembled on Gasparilla Island in 1927. However, the light was not lit until 1932, when it began service as the rear entrance range light for Port Boca Grande, with the front entrance range light approximately one mile off shore in the Gulf of Mexico.
Cairns on the Isles of Scilly date back to the Bronze Age and at that time Round Island was probably a peninsula on the northern shore of the main island in the Isles of Scilly. The granite , ashlar , 19 metres (62 ft) tall tower was designed by William Tregarthen Douglass , chief engineer for the Commissioners of Irish Lights , and is built on ...
St. Martin Island Light is an exoskeleton lighthouse on St. Martin Island. It marks one of four passages between Lake Michigan and the bay of Green Bay . [ 8 ] Constructed in 1905, this light tower is the only example in the US of a pure exoskeletal tower on the Great Lakes.
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In 1905, the U.S. Lighthouse Service identified Navassa Island as a good location for a new lighthouse. [4] However, plans for the light moved slowly. With the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914, shipping between the American eastern seaboard and the Canal through the Windward Passage between Cuba and Haiti increased in the area of Navassa, which proved a hazard to navigation.