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Flannan
Isles
Tower: Height: 23 metres, white conical tower
Elevation: 100 metres
Range: 2 white flashes every 30 seconds, visible for 20 miles
This light is operational
designed and built 1899 by David A. and Charles Stevenson
Date automated: 1971
Current use: Active aid to navigation.
On December 26, 1900, 3 keepers (James Ducat, Thomas Marshall,
Donald Macarthur) mysteriously disappeared from this lighthouse.
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| location |
15 miles west of the Isle of
Lewis (Outer Hebrides, west coast of Scotland)
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links |
Northern
Lighthouse Board - Flannan Isles |
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