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lighthouses. The 58-foot (18-metre) stone tower, built in 1833, stands on the west side of the island, at the top of a very steep cliff, making the light the highest in the UK with a focal plane of 208 m (682 ft) above sea level. It has a range of 18 nautical miles (21 mi; 33 km).
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the light was first exhibited on 15 October 1833. The oil-burning light was converted to incandescent in 1906 and the lighthouse was converted to automatic operation on 23 October 1980, when the last keepers were withdrawn.
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families meant an end to regular links by sea and the regular mist and fog rendered signalling unreliable. A system of wireless communications with
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179:18 m (59 ft)
48:The lighthouse in 2006
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101:56°47′08″N
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999:Scarinish
900:Turnberry
840:Noss Head
810:Inchkeith
795:Fife Ness
760:Corsewall
735:Bell Rock
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495:6 January
351:acetylene
343:Inverness
310:The Minch
232:First lit
168:Automated
104:7°39′13″W
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1037:Auskerry
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489:Archived
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954:Hyskeir
949:Haskeir
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