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Latvia
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Geography / Latvia
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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Known as Steinort before Latvian independence, the site first had an unlit wooden tower from 1868. Recurrent...
This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Akmenrags Lighthouse stands on the Latvian Baltic coast near Pavilosta, its name meaning "stone cape" in Latvian. Open record
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Lighthouse
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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The first classed lighthouse here, an ornate wooden tower with two lights, was built in 1817 under Leonty Spa...
This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Daugavgriva Lighthouse marks the mouth of the Daugava River at the approach to the Port of Riga, Latvia. Open record
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Lighthouse
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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. rear (upper) lighthouse of Mersrags port Open record
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Lighthouse
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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Irbensky sea lighthouse on a radioisotope thermoelectric generator
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Lighthouse
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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The cape's reef, once known by a Livonian name meaning "die yourself," wrecked dozens of ships even after ear...
This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Kolka Lighthouse stands on an artificial islet off Cape Kolkasrags at the entrance to the Gulf of Riga, Latvia. Open record
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Lighthouse
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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Video View from the Lielupe lighthouse near Jurmala How we climbed onto the lighthouse. Lighthouse from below...
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Lighthouse
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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Built after decades of petitioning by local pilots and merchants who cited around 20 shipwrecks in a single y...
This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Liepajas Bāka Lighthouse marks the port of Liepāja on Latvia's Baltic coast. Open record
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Lighthouse
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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Built at the urging of the Riga Exchange Committee, which lent the funds after the Hydrographic Department de...
This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Mersrags Lighthouse stands on a cape on the western shore of the Gulf of Riga, Latvia, guiding vessels toward the Mersrags harbor and the mouth of the Daugava. Open record
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Lighthouse
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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. It is installed on the cape of the same name, protruding into the Baltic Sea north of the Latvian port of Ven...
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Lighthouse
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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Located between the ports of Liepāja and Palanga near the former border with Prussia (hence its later name "P...
This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Pape Lighthouse stands at Cape Lapinemi on Latvia's western Baltic coast. Open record
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Lighthouse
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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. front (lower) lighthouse of Mersrags port Open record
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Lighthouse
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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Built in 1878-79 as a stone house joined to an 18 m round tower with a second-order dioptric apparatus, it fi...
This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Uzhava Lighthouse stands on a wooded, ravine-cut dune on the Latvian coast about 13 miles south of Ventspils. Open record
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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. An unlit stone tower resembling a small fortress was built atop the hill in 1850 purely as a daymark, and des...
This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Shlitere Lighthouse stands on Blauberg (Blue Mountain) near the village of Shlitere on Latvia's coast, southwest of Cape Kolkasrags at the entrance to the Gulf of Riga. Open record