• Dunston Pillar, a land lighthouse south of Lincoln, England, was built in the 18th century to aid navigation across the treacherous eastern heathlands?

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Lighthouse

• California's Rubicon Point Light, at 6300 ft above sea level, is the highest lighthouse in the United States?
• French lighthouse Phare de la Vieille (pictured) was operated manually as late as 1995?
• Île Vierge, in the southwestern corner of the English Channel, has the tallest stone lighthouse in Europe?
• Maurice Durand designed the lighthouses at the Île d'Yeu and the Pointe du Grouin du Cou in France to replace earlier structures that had been destroyed during World War II?
• Point Lonsdale Lighthouse's foghorn shed is the only one known from a lighthouse in Victoria, Australia?
• Spectacle Reef Light (pictured), a lighthouse on Lake Huron, Michigan, has been described as "one of the greatest engineering feats on the Great Lakes"?
• Split Rock Lighthouse State Park in Minnesota has a clifftop lighthouse (pictured) on the North Shore of Lake Superior built without roads?
• Svinøy island of Norway is so exposed to the wind and high seas that supply boats to the island's lighthouse could not dock but had to be lifted up by a crane?
• Vermilion Lighthouse is a replica of the 1877 iron lighthouse that was forged from recycled smooth-bored cannons that had been obsoleted after the American Civil War?
• the lighthouse Rumeli Feneri was built in 1855 in order to provide safe navigation for the French and British war ships entering the Bosphorus from the Black Sea during the Crimean War?