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Six lightkeepers were attached to the station, three lightkeepers and their families at the station, with a local assistant and two occasional lightkeepers coming in from
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1140:Lighthouses completed in 1900
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342:Tiumpan Head Lighthouse
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45:Tiumpan Head Lighthouse
22:Tiumpan Head Lighthouse
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184:21 metres (69 ft)
119:58.2609250; -6.1389139
265:1 December 1900
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835:Dubh Artach
796:Tarbat Ness
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686:Dunnet Head
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736:North Rona
646:Cape Wrath
542:15 January
517:15 January
452:References
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244:Fog signal
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900:Scarinish
801:Turnberry
741:Noss Head
711:Inchkeith
696:Fife Ness
661:Corsewall
636:Bell Rock
631:Bass Rock
262:First lit
173:Automated
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953:Copinsay
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