Vaternish Lighthouse was built on
Waternish Point
Waternish or Vaternish Point (Scottish Gaelic Rubha Bhatairnis) is the northwestern promontory of the Waternish peninsula on Skye
The Isle of Skye, or simply Skye, is the largest and northernmost of the major islands in the Inner Hebrides of ...
in 1924. The engineers were
David
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The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Dam ...
and
Charles Stevenson. The original lens was donated to the
Museum of Scottish Lighthouses
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.
The present tower was built in 1980, by engineer John Smith. It consists of a concrete base, aluminium light room and a
GRP roof. Solar panels were installed in 2001.
It is accessible on foot from the road at
Trumpan
Trumpan () is a hamlet located on the Vaternish peninsula in the Isle of Skye, in the Scottish council area of the Highland. Trumpan Church, which is now a ruin, was the focus of a particularly brutal incident in 1578, when the Clan MacDonald ...
.
See also
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List of lighthouses in Scotland
This is a list of lighthouses in Scotland. The Northern Lighthouse Board, from which much of the information is derived, are responsible for most lighthouses in Scotland but have handed over responsibility in the major estuaries to the port aut ...
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List of Northern Lighthouse Board lighthouses
This is a list of the currently operational lighthouses of the Northern Lighthouse Board (NLB). The list is divided by geographical location, and then by whether the lighthouses are classed by the NLB as a 'major lighthouse' or a 'minor light'. F ...
Notes
External links
Northern Lighthouse Board
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Lighthouses completed in 1924
Lighthouses in the Isle of Skye
1924 establishments in Scotland