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Northern Lighthouse Board (1787–1991), Museum of Scottish Lighthouses (1991–) Heritage: category A listed building Fog signal: siren: discontinued: Deactivated: 1991 Lens: hyperradiant Fresnel lens Intensity: 980 candela Characteristic: W Fl 15s New Kinnaird Head Lighthouse : Constructed: 1991 Construction: fiberglass Height: 10 m (33 ft) Shape
Kinnaird Head (Scottish Gaelic: An Ceann Àrd, "high headland") is a headland projecting into the North Sea, within the town of Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, on the east coast of Scotland. The 16th-century Kinnaird Castle was converted in 1787 for use as the Kinnaird Head Lighthouse , the first lighthouse in Scotland to be lit by the ...
Fraserburgh (/ ˈ f r eɪ z ər b ər ə /; Scottish Gaelic: Baile nam Frisealach), [2] locally known as the Broch, [3] is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, with a population recorded in the 2011 Census as 13,100. [4]
The firth is named after the 10th-century Province of Moray, whose name in turn is believed to derive from the sea of the firth itself.The local names Murar or Morar are suggested to derive from Muir, the Gaelic for sea, [2] whilst Murav and Morav are believed to be rooted in Celtic words Mur (sea) and Tav (side), condensed to Mur'av for sea-side. [3]
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Front light in 1904 Rear light in 1904. The two range light towers are located in shallow water nearly a mile from the nearest land. The front range light is the smaller of the two, It is a cylindrical yellow brick tower, measuring 17 feet tall and tapering from 11 feet in diameter at the base to 10 feet in diameter in diameter at the top.
This was the last manned lighthouse on Lake Michigan [8] and the last Michigan lighthouse to lose its keeper. [9] The light is now a Vega VRB-25 system. [ 1 ] The new optic would be visible for a range of 13 to 19 nautical miles; 24 to 35 kilometres (15 to 22 mi), depending on the bulb used.
The villages of Inverallochy (Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Aileachaidh) and Cairnbulg (from the Gaelic càrn builg meaning 'gap cairn' [2]) lie some 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Fraserburgh, in North East Scotland. It formerly consisted of the three fishing villages of Brandesburgh, Cairnbulg and Inverallochy, but the former village has since disappeared.