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Ailsa Craig is also known as "Paddy's Mile Stone" as it lies halfway between the cities of
Glasgow and Belfast. As well as being a local landmark and a well known marine navigational hazard the island is a protected bird sanctuary, sheltering thousands of breeding pairs of sea birds. Other wild life
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during the summer months. The basking shark is a large but harmless shark: it can often be seen from boats feeding at the surface on the
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found on and around the island are a colony of grey seals as well as the occasional whale, and more commonly large
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In June 2018 the former lighthouse keepers' cottages, now derelict, were placed for sale by auction.
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Initially, the lighthouse used oil-burning lamps, but by 1911, these were replaced with
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was automated, and a refurbishment took place in 2001, when it was converted to run on
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which grows in great abundance around the
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It was completed in 1886, the construction being overseen by
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722:Sule Skerry
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632:Girdle Ness
617:Dunnet Head
572:Buchan Ness
552:Ailsa Craig
528:Lighthouses
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349:Fog signals
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127:Constructed
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84:Coordinates
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1065:Categories
962:Firths Voe
836:Skerryvore
756:Barra Head
707:Stoer Head
667:North Rona
577:Cape Wrath
428:References
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94:55°15′07″N
18:Lighthouse
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904:Noup Head
831:Scarinish
732:Turnberry
672:Noss Head
642:Inchkeith
627:Fife Ness
592:Corsewall
567:Bell Rock
562:Bass Rock
244:First lit
165:Automated
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220:Heritage
212:Operator
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