 Barnegat Lighthouse in Barnegat Light, Long Beach Island, New Jersey. Image by Andrew Bossi, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed CC BY-SA 3.0 |
LighthouseLighthouse Lighthouse Structure designed to emit light to aid navigation For other uses, see Lighthouse (disambiguation). A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways. Barnegat Lighthouse at the coast of Ocean County, New Jersey, U.S., facing the Atlantic Ocean at sunrise Aerial drone footage of the Roman Rock Lighthouse off the southern coast of South Africa. Lighthouses mark dangerous coastlines, hazardous shoals, reefs, rocks, and safe entries to harbors; they also assist in aerial navigation. Once widely used, the number of operational lighthouses has declined due to… (Source: Wikipedia)
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