The Utö Lighthouse is located on the island of
Utö Uto, UTO, Utö, or Utō may refer to:
People Given name
* Uto Ughi (born 1944), Italian violinist and conductor
* Uto Wunderlich (born 1946), German sports shooter
Surname
* Datu Uto (died c. 1900), 18th Sultan of Buayan, Mindanao
* Fumiaki ...
, in
Pargas
Pargas () is a town and municipality of Finland, in the Archipelago Sea, the biggest archipelago in the world by the number of islands, 50,000. The big limestone mine in Pargas is the base of the main industry and except for the central parts, t ...
municipality, Finland.
The tower is situated on the island's summit. After the original round lighthouse (Finland's first lighthouse) was destroyed during the
Russo-Swedish Wars
This is a list of wars between Russia, Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to th ...
of 1808-09, the present structure was constructed in 1814, with the present lens installed in 1906.
The lighthouse is painted as the
signal flag
Flag signals can mean any of various methods of using flags or pennants to send signals. Flags may have individual significance as signals, or two or more flags may be manipulated so that their relative positions convey symbols. Flag signals allo ...
H (Hotel), as the island has a
maritime pilot
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station. Likewise, the light signal of the lighthouse is four short flashes (....) as
Morse code
Morse code is a telecommunications method which Character encoding, encodes Written language, text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called ''dots'' and ''dashes'', or ''dits'' and ''dahs''. Morse code i ...
letter 'H'.
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External links
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Lighthouses in Finland