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| x Pencarrow Head Lighthouse |
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Pencarrow Head Lighthouse is a decommissioned Lighthouse at Pencarrow Head in the Wellington Region of the North Island of New Zealand. It was the first permanent lighthouse built in New Zealand and was constructed from sections of cast iron that...
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| x Williamstown Lighthouse |
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The Williamstown Lighthouse is situated at Gellibrand Point (38°35′S 143°20′E / 38.583°S 143.333°E / -38.583; 143.333), in the Melbourne suburb of Williamstown. It was erected in 1852, and replaced earlier navigational aids established from the...
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| x South Bishop Lighthouse |
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The South Bishop Lighthouse is a lighthouse on South Bishop Island (also known as Emsger), a small rock approximately five miles west of St Davids Head in Pembrokeshire, Wales. It was built in the path of many migrating sea birds, and the brilliance...
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| x Cape Liptrap Lighthouse |
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Cape Liptrap Lighthouse stands upon the rocky cliff top of Cape Liptrap peninsula, on a solitary part of the South Gippsland coastline. The lighthouse warns ships of the rocks in treacherous Bass Strait.
The first Cape Liptrap lighthouse was...
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| x Bathurst Lighthouse |
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Bathurst Lighthouse is one of two lighthouses on Rottnest Island, the other being Wadjemup Lighthouse. It is located on Bathurst Point, in the north east of the island, and was activated in 1900. The lighthouse was erected in response to a series of...
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| x Bass Rock |
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The Bass Rock, or simply The Bass, pronounced //bæs//, is an island in the outer part of the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland. It is approximately 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) offshore, and 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north-west of North Berwick. It is a...
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| x Tiritiri Matangi Lighthouse |
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Tiritiri Matangi Lighthouse is a lighthouse on Tiritiri Matangi, an island in the Hauraki Gulf 28 km north of Auckland in the North Island of New Zealand. It is owned and operated by Maritime New Zealand. The Tiritiri Matangi light is the oldest...
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| x Burrewarra Point |
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Burrewarra Point is to the north of Broulee and 25 kilometers to the south of Batemans Bay on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia.
On the point is a lighthouse maintained by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority. The current structure...
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| x Point of Ayre |
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The Point of Ayre is the northernmost point of the Isle of Man. It lies at the northern end of Ramsey Bay 10 kilometres north of the town of Ramsey. The point can be accessed by the A16 road from Bride.
It is the closest point on the Isle of Man to...
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| x Longstone Lighthouse |
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Longstone Lighthouse was built and designed by Joseph Nelson in 1826, and was originally called the outer Farne lighthouse.
The site has a long history in the need for a light, prior to the construction of the lighthouse. In the late 17th Century,...
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| x Cape Canaveral Light |
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The Cape Canaveral Light is a historic lighthouse on the east coast of the U.S. state of Florida.
The current Cape Canaveral Light is not the first lighthouse on Cape Canaveral. A 60-foot (18 m) tall brick structure was built on the Cape in 1848....
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| x Tacking Point Lighthouse |
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Tacking Point Lighthouse is Australia's third oldest lighthouse. It was built on a rocky headland about 8 kilometres south of Port Macquarie in 1879 by Shepard and Mortley, to a design by the New South Wales government's architect of the time, James...
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| x Esha Ness Lighthouse |
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Esha Ness Lighthouse is situated on the Northmavine peninsula in the north-west of the Shetland Islands, Scotland. It sometimes rendered as Eshaness Lighthouse.
The lighthouse has a tapering, square tower 12m high and was built by David Alan...
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| x Macquarie Lighthouse |
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The Macquarie Lighthouse was the first, and is the longest serving, lighthouse site in Australia. It is located on Dunbar Head, Vaucluse (approximately 2 km south of South Head) near the entrance to Sydney Harbour. There has been a navigational aid...
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| x Tater Du Lighthouse |
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Tater Du Lighthouse is Cornwall's most recently built lighthouse. The construction of the lighthouse came out of the tragedy of losing a small Spanish coaster called the Juan Ferrer on the 23rd of October 1963, on the nearby Boscawen point, the...
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| x Round Island Light |
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Round Island Lighthouse, located on Round Island, was built in 1887 by William Tregarthen Douglass and automated in 1987. Round Island, the most northerly outpost of the Scillies, is a 40 m mass of granite, the top forming a platform on which...
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| x Nobbys Head |
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Originally called Coal Island, Nobbys Head is the location of the third lighthouse built in New South Wales after the Macquarie Lighthouse in 1818 and the Hornby Lighthouse which was also built in 1858. The lighthouse is located on the South side of...
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| x Hornby Lighthouse |
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Hornby Lighthouse is located on the tip of South Head. It is the third oldest lighthouse in Australia and is currently operated by Sydney Ports Corporation. The light emits a single occulting signal from a focal plane of 27 metres above sea level....
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| x Grotto Point |
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Grotto Point is one of two leading lights into the Sydney Harbour. The other lighthouse, Parriwi Point (sometimes known as the Rosherville Lighthouse), is one mile behind Grotto Point.
It is at the southern-most tip of Balgowlah Heights at 33°49'3"S...
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| x Cape Campbell Lighthouse |
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Cape Campbell Lighthouse is a lighthouse at Cape Campbell in the Marlborough region of the South Island of New Zealand. It is owned and operated by Maritime New Zealand.
The original lighthouse at this site was first lit on August 1, 1870. However,...
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| x Galle Lighthouse |
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Galle Lighthouse is an offshore Lighthouse in Galle, Sri Lanka and is operated and maintained by the Sri Lanka Ports Authority. This is Sri Lanka's oldest light station dating back to 1848, but the original lighthouse was destroyed by fire in 1934....
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| x Point Danger, NSW/Queensland |
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Point Danger is a high steep headland right on the border between Queensland and New South Wales, Australia, at the southern end of the Gold Coast. The headland separates Snapper Rocks/Rainbow Bay to the north, and Duranbah beach and the Tweed River...
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| x Mokohinau Islands Lighthouse |
Mokohinau Islands Lighthouse is a lighthouse on Burgess Island, one of the Mokohinau Islands, which lie of the northeast coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is owned and operated by Maritime New Zealand.
The lighthouse was built in 1883 and...
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| x Goose Island |
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Goose Island is an elongated granite island, with an area of 109 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Badger Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait west of Flinders and Cape Barren Islands in the Furneaux Group. It has a...
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| x Wollongong Lighthouses |
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Wollongong with a population of nearly 200,000 is the third largest city in the Illawarra region of New South Wales (NSW), south of Sydney in Australia. It is the only place in the east of Australia to have two lighthouses that are located within...
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| x Castle Point Lighthouse |
Castle Point Lighthouse is a lighthouse near the village of Castlepoint in the Wellington Region of the North Island of New Zealand. It is owned and operated by Maritime New Zealand.
The light was built in 1913 and was originally fueled by oil. In...
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| x Double Island Point |
Double Island Point is a coastal headland in Queensland, Australia. It's the next headland north of Noosa and is within the Cooloola section of the Great Sandy National Park, at the southern end of Wide Bay.
The point was named by Captain Cook when...
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| x East Cape Lighthouse |
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East Cape Lighthouse is a Lighthouse at East Cape, the most easterly point on the North Island of New Zealand. It is owned and operated by Maritime New Zealand. The lighthouse was originally constructed on nearby East Island which proved to be too...
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| x Barns Ness Lighthouse |
Barns Ness Lighthouse is located 5 km from Dunbar, and was constructed by engineer David A. Stevenson between 1899-1901. Taking approximately 2.5 years to construct, it was illuminated in October, 1901, and was constructed from stone, quarried from...
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| x Douglas Head Lighthouse, Isle of Man |
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Douglas Head Lighthouse is a lighthouse at Douglas Head on the Isle of Man between England and Ireland.
The light was established in 1857 although the vicinity was in the control of the Isle of Man Harbour Board from 1832.
The lighthouse was built...
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| x Fort Queenscliff Lighthouse |
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Fort Queenscliff Lighthouse is situated in the grounds of Fort Queenscliff in Queenscliff, Victoria, Australia, and is one of three black lighthouses in the world, and the only one in the Southern hemisphere. Together with the nearby white lighhouse...
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| x Bressay Lighthouse |
Bressay Lighthouse is a lighthouse in the Shetland Islands, Scotland, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) SE of Lerwick, it is located in the Sound of Bressay, on the island of Bressay.
It was one of four lighthouses built in Shetland between 1854 and 1858,...
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| x Colombo Lighthouse |
Colombo Lighthouse is a Lighthouse in Colombo in Sri Lanka and it is operated and maintained by the Sri Lanka Ports Authority. It is located at Galbokka Point south of the Colombo harbour on the waterfront along the marine drive, in Colombo fort....
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| x Nugget Point Lighthouse |
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Nugget Point Lighthouse is a lighthouse at Nugget Point in the Otago region of the South Island of New Zealand. It is owned and operated by Maritime New Zealand.
The light was built in 1870 and was originally fueled by oil. In 1949 the oil lamp was...
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| x Cuvier Island Lighthouse |
Cuvier Island Lighthouse is a lighthouse on Cuvier Island, a small island off the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is owned and operated by Maritime New Zealand. The light was constructed in 1889 and was the first lighthouse built...
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| x Cape Reinga Lighthouse |
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Cape Reinga Lighthouse is a lighthouse at Cape Reinga in the Northland Region of the North Island of New Zealand. It is owned and operated by Maritime New Zealand. The lighthouse is a common New Zealand icon and a popular tourist destination...
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| x Ona lighthouse |
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Ona Lighthouse is located on Ona, a small, inhabited island in the municipality of Sandøy in Møre og Romsdal county.
The lighthouse is built on Onakalven, the highest cliff on the island overlooking the harbor and the few, clustered wooden houses on...
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| x Cape Schanck Lighthouse |
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The Cape Schanck lighthouse was built in 1859 as the second lighthouse in Victoria. It is located on the southernmost tip of the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia. The tower was built from limestone, it is 21 metres tall. The light's focal...
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| x Cape du Couedic |
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Cape du Couedic is the south-western point of Kangaroo Island, off the coast of South Australia. Cape du Couedic was named in 1803 by French explorer Nicolas Baudin in honour of his friend and famous French sea captain Charles Louis, Chevalier du...
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| x Alnes lighthouse |
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Alnes lighthouse was established in 1852 to guide fishing boats safely to the harbor of the small fishing community of Alnes on Godøy island on the west coast of Norway. The current lighthouse was built in 1876 and is still in operation with a few...
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| x Muckle Flugga Lighthouse |
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Muckle Flugga lighthouse punctuates the rocky stack of Muckle Flugga, in Shetland, Scotland. Originally called North Unst Lighthouse, it was renamed in 1964.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s father and uncle designed and built the lighthouse here in 1854...
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| x Dondra Head Lighthouse |
Dondra Head Lighthouse is an offshore Lighthouse in Dondra, Sri Lanka and is operated and maintained by the Sri Lanka Ports Authority. It is located on Dondra head the southern most point in Sri Lanka and is the tallest lighthouse in the country. It...
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| x Point Perpendicular |
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Point Perpendicular is a point and lighthouse at southern tip of the Beecroft Peninsula and at the northern entry to Jervis Bay, in New South Wales, Australia.
The lighthouse and its grounds are an exclave of the State of New South Wales, being...
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| x Ailsa Craig Lighthouse |
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The Ailsa Craig Lighthouse, located on Ailsa Craig, an island in the Firth of Clyde, just offshore from Girvan, South Ayrshire, Scotland, was completed in 1886, the construction being overseen by Thomas and David Stevenson.
Initially, the lighthouse...
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| x Wilsons Promontory Lighthouse |
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Wilsons Promontory Lighthouse is situated on South East Point, Wilsons Promontory,Victoria, Australia. From its pont on the peninsular, it commands almost 360° views of Bass Strait. The Wilson's Promontory lighthouse is the southernmost lighthouse...
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| x Cape Borda |
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Cape Borda is a headland with a lighthouse on the west coast of Kangaroo Island and is situated 70 kilometres west from the town of Kingscote.
Cape Borda Lightstation was built in 1858 and is the third oldest remaining and only square stone...
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| x Cliffy Island Lighthouse |
The Cliffy Island lighthouse was constructed in 1884 from local granite quarried on Cliffy Island. The lighthouse warns ships of the rocks in treacherous Bass Strait by emitting a flash of light every five seconds. The focal plane of the lightsource...
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| x Fort Canning Lighthouse |
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Fort Canning Lighthouse also known as Fort Canning Light is located on top of Fort Canning Hill, was formerly one of the 13 important lighthouses in the Straits of Malacca. Located nearby with The Flagstaff and the Time Ball, the three navigation...
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| x Ulla lighthouse |
Ulla lighthouse is a lighthouse on Ulla, a fishing community on the island Haramsøya in Haram municipality on the west coast of Norway.
In October 1944, the lighthouse and the surrounding buildings were attacked by allied airplanes. The lighthouse...
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| x Tarbat Ness Lighthouse |
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The Tarbat Ness Lighthouse is located at the North West tip of the Tarbat Ness peninsula near the fishing village of Portmahomack on the east coast of Scotland. It was built in 1830 by Robert Stevenson and has an elevation of 53 metres and 203 steps...
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| x Baring Head Lighthouse |
Baring Head Lighthouse is a Lighthouse at Baring Head in the Wellington Region of the North Island of New Zealand. It is owned and operated by Maritime New Zealand.
Its purpose was to be the main light for the Cook Strait and Wellington Harbour and...
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| x Cape Fear Lighthouse |
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Cape Fear Lighthouse was built in 1903, replacing the Bald Head Lighthouse as the main navigation aid for Cape Fear and the Frying Pan Shoals off the coast of the U.S. state of North Carolina. It stood near the cape on Bald Head Island. It was a...
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| x Waipapa Point Lighthouse |
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Waipapa Point Lighthouse is a lighthouse located at Waipapa Point, Southland, New Zealand. It was first lit on January 1, 1884.
The lighthouse was built in response to the wreck of the passenger steamer Tararua on reefs off Waipapa Point on April 29...
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| x Little Basses Reef Lighthouse |
Little Basses Reef Lighthouse is an offshore Lighthouse in South of Sri Lanka and it is operated and maintained by the Sri Lanka Navy. It is located on a reef ten km off the coast of Yala National Park and is in proximity to Great Basses Reef...
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| x Cape Lookout Lighthouse |
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The Cape Lookout Lighthouse is a 163-foot high lighthouse located on the Southern Outer Banks of North Carolina. It flashes every 15 seconds and is visible at least 12 miles out to sea and up to 19 miles. The Cape Lookout Light is one of the very...
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| x Covesea Skerries Lighthouse |
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Covesea Skerries Lighthouse, belonging to the Northern Lighthouse Board (NLB), is built on top of a small headland on the south coast of the Moray Firth at Covesea, near Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland.
Following a storm in the Moray Firth in November...
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| x Bunbury |
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The port city of Bunbury is the third largest city in Western Australia after Mandurah and Perth the state capital. It is situated 175 kilometres (109 mi) south of Perth's central business district (CBD). The port services the farming and timber...
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| x Cape Otway |
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Cape Otway is a cape in south Victoria, Australia on the Great Ocean Road; much of the area is enclosed in the Otway National Park.
Cape Otway was originally inhabited by the Gadubanud people; evidence of their campsites is contained in the middens...
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| x Old Colombo Lighthouse |
Old Colombo Lighthouse is a Lighthouse in Colombo in Sri Lanka. It is not operational any more, but functions as a clock tower and is designated as a monument. It is located at the junction of Chatham Street and Janadhipathi Mawatha (formally Queens...
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| x Hook Lighthouse |
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The Hook Lighthouse (also known as Hook Head Lighthouse), situated at the tip of the Hook Peninsula in County Wexford, in Ireland, is one of the oldest lighthouses in the world. Operated by the Commissioners of Irish Lights, the Irish Lighthouse...
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