It's very likely that you've seen the island that hosts this lighthouse.
However, you may not have known there was a lighthouse on this island. Neither did I.
I actually found this lighthouse searching with the phrase "hidden lighthouse". Even though I had looked up this place not long ago, for another reason, I didn't see the lighthouse.
The other reason, and also the reason I think many of you have seen this place before, is that this is the location for the retreat/exile of Luke Skywalker in the most recent main Star Wars storyline movie, The Last Jedi. I looked up the location, which is Skellig Michael island, off the western coast of Ireland. Here, in fact.
So let's learn a little about Skellig Michael lighthouse.
This site will tell you everything you might ever want to know:
Skelligs History - Lighthouse Timeline
Here are the basics from the Lighthouse Directory:
"1967 (station established 1826). Active; focal plane 53 m (175 ft); three white flashes, separated by 2.5 s, every 15 s. 12 m (39 ft) round cylindrical (concrete?) tower attached to a 2-story keeper's house. Entire station painted white."There are actually two lighthouses on Skellig Michael; the low one is the active one, and the high one is now inactive.
Enough of all that: here are the pictures. In the history of my Lighthouses of the Week, I've seen and shown a number of impressively sited lighthouses; this one ranks up there with the best of them.
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| The Skellig Islands - Skellig Michael in front |
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