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2. Lighthouse keeper - Wikipedia

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   A lighthouse keeper or lightkeeper is a person responsible for tending and caring for a lighthouse, particularly the light and lens in the days when oil lamps and clockwork mechanisms were used. Lighthouse keepers were sometimes referred to as " wickies " because of their job trimming the wicks. [1]

3. Flannan Isles Lighthouse - Wikipedia

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   20 nautical miles (37 km; 23 mi) Characteristic. Fl (2) W 30s. Flannan Isles Lighthouse is a lighthouse near the highest point on Eilean Mòr, one of the Flannan Isles in the Outer Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland. It is best known for the mysterious disappearance of its keepers in 1900.

4. Smalls Lighthouse - Wikipedia

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   Smalls Lighthouse. Smalls Lighthouse is a lighthouse that stands on the largest of a group of wave-washed basalt and dolerite rocks [3][4] known as The Smalls approximately 20 miles (32 km) west of Marloes Peninsula in Pembrokeshire, Wales, and 8 miles (13 km) west of Grassholm. It was erected in 1861 by engineer James Douglass to replace a ...

5. Flannan Isles - Wikipedia

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   It is the setting of Alan K. Baker's mystery novel The Lighthouse Keeper (2012), with a storyline inspired by the 1900 disappearance of the crew. Reverse: 1999, a turn-based tactical role-playing game, features a side story that takes place in the Flannan Isles and is based on the lighthouse keepers' disappearances.

6. North Rona - Wikipedia

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   It is often referred to as North Rona to distinguish it from the island of South Rona in the Inner Hebrides. It has an area of 109 hectares (270 acres) and a maximum elevation of 108 metres (354 ft). [ 1 ][ 4 ][ a ] It is the most remote island in the British Isles ever to have been inhabited on a long-term basis.

7. Skerryvore - Wikipedia

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   Skerryvore. Skerryvore (from the Gaelic An Sgeir Mhòr meaning "The Great Skerry ") is a remote island that lies off the west coast of Scotland, 11 nautical miles (20 kilometres) southwest of Tiree. Skerryvore Lighthouse is located on these rocks, built with some difficulty between 1838 and 1844 by Alan Stevenson. [4]