History
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England’s dramatic outpost at The Needles
Just a few hundred metres from the Isle of Wight but it might as well be in the middle f the ocean – The Needles lighthouse was a triumph of Victorian engineering
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Two lighthouses, one light: Yamba’s historic twins
Perched on Pilot Hill, a windswept headland overlooking Main Beach, the Clarence River entrance and the Tasman Sea, Yamba’s lighthouses are tangible links to the town’s maritime past and present.
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Sydney’s Macquarie Lighthouse: an enduring sentinel
Standing proudly on Dunbar Head at Vaucluse, overlooking the entrance to Sydney Harbour, the Macquarie Lighthouse holds the distinction of being Australia’s longest continuously operating lighthouse.
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Marooned – Tokyo’s inland lighthouse
Tokyo’s Kudanzaka Lighthouse is believed to be Japan’s oldest surviving stone lighthouse – yet it’s nowhere near the coastline.
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Pharos – the wonder of the ancient world
The Pharos of Alexandria guided ships for 1500 years and ir was the model on which modern lighthouses were built.
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The heroic lighthouse keeper’s daughter
22 year old Grace Darling, a lighthouse keeper’s daugher from Northumberland whose heroism inspired Victorian Britain.