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Corran lighthouse by Oliver Greese
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Corran lighthouse (Ardgour lighthouse)

Tower: white conical tower

Range: flashes red every 4 seconds

This light is operational

built 1860 by David and Thomas Stevenson

Date Automated: 1970

Current use: Active aid to navigation.
 
The original lantern was built by a firm called Milnes & Son. The light would have been manned by one lighthouse keeper, and was automated in 1970, when the Corran Narrows North East light was built in order to allow safe passage at night through the bottleneck as it was increasingly being used by larger ships due to the expansion of the paper industry in Fort William.
location

at Loch Linnhe, Ardgour, Highlands of Scotland, at the ferry crossing Ardgour - Nether Lochaber



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