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Eilean Musdile

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in 1833 at a cost of £4260 and initially showed a fixed white light. In 1910 most of the Northern Lighthouse Board's lights were changed to
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cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern attached to 1-storey keeper's house
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A Standing Stone once stood on the highest point of the island (
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Archaeological sites in the Northern Inner Hebrides
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Oban
Craignure
Firth of Lorn
Scotland
OS grid
NM7781235105
Coordinates
56°27′20.1″N 5°36′26.6″W / 56.455583°N 5.607389°W / 56.455583; -5.607389
Robert Stevenson
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Characteristic
lighthouse
Lismore
Inner Hebrides
Loch Linnhe
CalMac
Oban
Mull
Robert Stevenson
dioptric
Fresnel lenses
Fidra
Firth of Forth
catoptric lights
NM779351
Lady's Rock
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