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Dubh Artach Dubh Artach

Tower height: 38 metres, grey granite tower with a central red band, diameter of 10 metres at the base tapering to 5 metres at the top.

Elevation: 44 metres

Range: flashing white every 30 seconds, visible for 20 miles

This light is operational

built from 1868 to 1872 by Thomas and David Stevenson

Date automated: 1971

Current use: Active aid to navigation
location

on an isolated mass of basaltic rock in the Torran Reef, 16 miles southwest of the Ross of Mull, west coast of Scotland

useful links
Northern Lighthouse Borad - Dubh Artach
RLS, Erraid and Dubh Artach
 


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