Interesting facts about lighthouses

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• The most famous lighthouse incident was the mysterious disappearance of three lighthouse keepers on the Flannan Islands at the same time in December 1900.

• In France, the coastline was not marked with lights until the 17th century; this was done to prevent pirate attacks.

• One of the few that is still operating, the lighthouse church is the Ascension Church, built in 1867 on Sekirnaya Mountain of the Bolshoi Solovetsky Island (see Solovetsky Islands).

• The Statue of Liberty was used as a lighthouse from 1886 to 1902.

• The westernmost lighthouse in Russia, built in 1813-1816, is located in the city of Baltiysk. It shows the way to ships heading to the ports of Baltiysk, Svetly and Kaliningrad.

• The legendary Armen lighthouse was built on a rock right among the stormy waters of the Strait of Sen. This rock rises above the water only 1.5 meters at low tide. Only when the weather allowed did workers drill holes for the rebar. So in the first year they only drilled 15 holes. Over the next year there were more - 34. Construction of the lighthouse lasted 14 years.

• The Westerlichttoren lighthouse was featured on the Dutch 250 guilder banknote.

• The tallest, 106-meter lighthouse in the form of a steel tower is installed in Yokohama (Japan).

• The oldest of the currently operating lighthouses, built during the time of the Roman emperor Trajan (2nd century), is located in the Spanish province of La Coruña, near the city of El Ferrol.