An aid for navigation and pilot at sea, a lighthouse is a tower building or framework sending out light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire. Lighthouses are used to mark dangerous coastlines, hazardous shoals, safe entries to harbors and can also assist in aerial navigation. Because of modern electronic navigational aids, the number of operational lighthouses has declined to fewer than 1,500 worldwide.
Perhaps the most famous lighthouse in history is the Lighthouse of Alexandria, built on the island of Pharos in Hellenistic Egypt. The name of the island of Pharos is still used as the noun for "lighthouse" in some languages, for example: Albanian and Catalan and Romanian (far), French (phare), Italian and Spanish (faro), Portuguese (farol) and Swedish (fyr). The word "pharology" (study of the lighthouses) is also derived from the island's name.
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- Trinity House
- Trinity house: General Lighthouse Authority for England, Wales, the Channel Islands and Gibraltar, responsible for a range of general aids to navigation.
- Northern Lighthouse Board
- Organization which maintain Aids to Navigation around the coast of Scotland and the Isle of Man.
- Welcome to: U S - L i g h t h o u s e s . c o m
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- Museum of Scottish Lighhouses.
- The United States Lighthouse Society | About the Society
- The United States Lighthouse Society is a non-profit historical and educational organization incorporated to educate, inform, and entertain those who are interested in America's lighthouses, past and present.
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- mbgphoto mbgphoto Jan 11, 2009 @ 1:03 pm
- Great lens. I love lighthouses and photographing lighthouses. Thanks for some good information.
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- MusicMadness MusicMadness Jul 18, 2008 @ 11:23 am
- That's some great lighthouse information you have there. I've always enjoyed seeing lighthouses, and about five years ago, became an avid sail boater. Sailing all around Lake Huron and Georgian Bay in Ontario, has given me plenty of opportunities to see even more lighthouses. I wrote a blog post about lighthouse posters on my website a while a ago. You may enjoy giving it a read.
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- kansasww kansasww Dec 28, 2007 @ 11:42 am
- Great lens,I love the vidieos Keep up the great work.
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