This week's lighthouse is on the Bahamian island of San Salvador, which is the traditional (and I think, still the most likely) location that Cristoforo Colombo made his first landfall in the "New World". There are a few people living on this island, and it has a lighthouse (though I must add, many of the lighthouses in the Bahamas are in a state of disrepair, or worse).
The lighthouse is called Dixon Hill, on the highest point on the island, which obviously isn't that high. But it's still a working lighthouse, with a lived-in lighthouse keeper's house. I'm going to show where it is, zoomed out a bit so you can see where San Salvador is with respect to some of the better-known islands. So that would be here. Never mind that Google Maps calls it just Dixon Lighthouse.
There isn't a lot to say about this one, but I'll let the Lighthouse Directory say it.
"1887 (station established 1856). Active; focal plane 50 m (164 ft); two white flashes every 10 s. 22 m (72 ft) round tapered brick tower with lantern and gallery, painted white. ... The two original 1-story keeper's houses are still occupied by keepers, who also conduct tours of the tower. Located on the highest point of the island of San Salvador, on the northeastern side of the island."
Indeed, it is white, as you will see below.
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