For this week's lighthouse, I went back to Sardinia, in the Mediterranean Sea, which has provided a few lighthouses for this weekly feature before. However, this lighthouse, while small, is picturesque because occasionally it is subject to big wave action, and there are many commercial pictures of that. I found a couple that weren't on the commercial sites.
This is the Scoglio Mangiabarche, located off the far southwest coast of Sardinia. It's actually a lighthouse on a shoal off a small island that's off the coast of the big main island. I'm going to provide two map to help locate it.
The first is the whole island of Sardinia, with the lighthouse located where I said it was, off the southwestern end.
The second is a close-up, showing where it is in relation to the smaller islet of Sant'Antioco. Weirdly enough, while the whole island is named Sant'Antioco, only part of the commune named Sant'Antioco is on the island. Figure that one out.
Now back to the lighthouse, which we learn about from the Lighthouse Directory:
"1935. Active; focal plane 12 m (39 ft); white flash every 6 s. 11 m (36 ft) round stone tower with a small lantern and gallery, painted white. The name mangiabarche means "boat-eater," a reference to the dangerous shoals nearby. ... Located off the northwest point of the Isola di Sant'Antioco, marking the 2.4 km (1.5 mi) wide channel between that island and the Isola di San Pietro."The directory also tells us that sometime between June 2000 and now, the light was renovated and repainted.
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