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Rockall navigation-site continuity
The navigational identity of Rockall as a documented hazard and proposed or actual warning site, distinct from both the granite islet and the short-lived 1972 apparatus.
Heritage Journey
Rockall: A Light Between Warning and Claim
What happens when a navigation light is fixed to a rock whose warning, sovereignty and surrounding sea rights do not share one legal answer?
Identity role
- Navigation-site continuityRockall: A Light Between Warning and Claim
The continuing hazardous place and its documented warning history.
Relationship Explorer
- DecommissionedRockall 1972 navigation light2006reviewed
After the failed light was not restored, NLB advised its removal from the Admiralty List of Lights in 2006.
- Has partRockall 1972 navigation light27/06/1972reviewed
The 1972 apparatus is one short-lived physical expression of the longer navigation-site identity.
- Located atRockall1904reviewed
Rockall's navigation-site identity is rooted in the hazardous granite islet.
- ModifiedRockall1971reviewed
The expedition reduced the summit by about 1.5 metres to prepare a platform for the beacon.
- RepairedRockall 1972 navigation light1982reviewed
A government operation replaced batteries and damaged equipment in 1982.
Timeline and Relations
- Located at Rockall1904
Rockall's navigation-site identity is rooted in the hazardous granite islet.
- Has part Rockall 1972 navigation light27/06/1972
The 1972 apparatus is one short-lived physical expression of the longer navigation-site identity.
- Modified Rockall1971
The expedition reduced the summit by about 1.5 metres to prepare a platform for the beacon.
- Repaired Rockall 1972 navigation light1982
A government operation replaced batteries and damaged equipment in 1982.
- Decommissioned Rockall 1972 navigation light2006
After the failed light was not restored, NLB advised its removal from the Admiralty List of Lights in 2006.
Asset Lifecycle Visualisation
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Asset lifecycle (1 events)
- Rockall navigation-site continuity located at RockallSource: Rockall navigation-site continuity · Target: RockallSources: Rockall — Northern Lighthouse Board Journal, Summer 2023high
Connection graph (2 objects)
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Expand to the wider connected network (6 events · 3 objects)
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- Rockall navigation-site continuity located at RockallSource: Rockall navigation-site continuity · Target: RockallSources: Rockall — Northern Lighthouse Board Journal, Summer 2023high
- Rockall navigation-site continuity modified RockallSource: Rockall navigation-site continuity · Target: RockallSources: Rockall geological memoir — British Geological Surveyhigh
- Rockall 1972 navigation light installed at RockallSource: Rockall 1972 navigation light · Target: RockallSources: Rockall — Northern Lighthouse Board Journal, Summer 2023high
- Rockall 1972 navigation light decommissioned Rockall navigation-site continuitySource: Rockall 1972 navigation light · Target: Rockall navigation-site continuitySources: Rockall — Northern Lighthouse Board Journal, Summer 2023high
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Attribution
"Rockall navigation-site continuity" · LUX-ASSET-000665 · © LUX143 · Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International · https://light.lux143.org/heritage-assets/LUX-ASSET-000665/
Citation
LUX Light Archive, Heritage asset: "Rockall navigation-site continuity", LUX-ASSET-000665, https://light.lux143.org/heritage-assets/LUX-ASSET-000665/, accessed 2026-07-27, archive v0.24.296.