heritage asset · navigation_sign
Rockall 1972 navigation light
The flashing navigation light first lit on 27 June 1972, repaired in 1982, reported failed again by March 1983, and removed from the Admiralty List of Lights in 2006.
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
- 1972 navigation signRockall: A Light Between Warning and Claim
The separate installed light, repaired, failed and later delisted.
Relationship Explorer
- DecommissionedRockall navigation-site continuity2006reviewed
After the failed light was not restored, NLB advised its removal from the Admiralty List of Lights in 2006.
- Installed atRockall27/06/1972reviewed
The government navigation light was lit on Rockall on 27 June 1972.
- Part ofRockall navigation-site continuity27/06/1972reviewed
The 1972 apparatus is one short-lived physical expression of the longer navigation-site identity.
- RepairedRockall navigation-site continuity1982reviewed
A government operation replaced batteries and damaged equipment in 1982.
Timeline and Relations
- Part of Rockall navigation-site continuity27/06/1972
The 1972 apparatus is one short-lived physical expression of the longer navigation-site identity.
- Installed at Rockall27/06/1972
The government navigation light was lit on Rockall on 27 June 1972.
- Repaired Rockall navigation-site continuity1982
A government operation replaced batteries and damaged equipment in 1982.
- Decommissioned Rockall navigation-site continuity2006
After the failed light was not restored, NLB advised its removal from the Admiralty List of Lights in 2006.
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Asset lifecycle (1 events)
- Rockall 1972 navigation light installed at RockallSource: Rockall 1972 navigation light · Target: RockallSources: Rockall — Northern Lighthouse Board Journal, Summer 2023high
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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 1972 navigation light" · LUX-ASSET-000666 · © LUX143 · Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International · https://light.lux143.org/heritage-assets/LUX-ASSET-000666/
Citation
LUX Light Archive, Heritage asset: "Rockall 1972 navigation light", LUX-ASSET-000666, https://light.lux143.org/heritage-assets/LUX-ASSET-000666/, accessed 2026-07-27, archive v0.24.296.