Butt of Lewis Lighthouse

Butt of Lewis Lighthouse
*Rubha Robhanais*
Butt of Lewis Lighthouse
Outer Hebrides
Location	Butt of Lewis Hrris Outer Hebrides Scotland United Kingdom
Coordinates	58°30′55.7″N 6°15′39.2″W / 58.515472°N 6.260889°W / 58.515472; -6.260889
Year first constructed	1862
Automated	1998
Construction	brick tower
Tower shape	tapered cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern
Markings / pattern	brick unpainted tower, black lantern, ochre trim
Height	37 metres (121 ft)
Focal height	52 metres (171 ft)
Range	25 nautical miles (46 km; 29 mi)
Characteristic	Fl W 5s.
Admiralty number	A3968
NGA number	3820
ARLHS number	SCO-027
Managing agent	Northern Lighthouse Board^[1] ^[2]

Butt of Lewis Lighthouse, designed by David Stevenson, was built at Butt of Lewis to aid shipping in the 1860s. Unusual for a lighthouse in Scotland, it is constructed of red brick, and is unpainted. The station was automated in 1998, one of the last to have been converted. A modern differential GPS base station has now been sited on a nearby hill to further aid navigation. This hill was also the site for a Lloyd's Signal Station from the 1890s.

The road to the lighthouse passes a sheltered cove called Port Stoth. Agricultural lazy beds are also visible along the coast. The Butt of Lewis features some of the oldest rocks in Europe, having been formed in the Precambrian period up to 3000 million years ago. Following the coast southwest from the lighthouse there is a natural arch called the "Eye of the Butt" (Scottish Gaelic: Sùil an Rubha). It can be best viewed from the Habost machair.

References

↑ Butt Of Lewis (Rubha Robhanais) The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 18 May 2016
↑ Butt of Lewis Northern Lighthouse Board. Retrieved 18 May 2016

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Butt of Lewis history by the Northern Lighthouse Board
Panoramas of the Butt of Lewis Lighthouse (QuickTime required)
Northern Lighthouse Board

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Lighthouses of the Northern Lighthouse Board

Scotland (except principal island groups)	Ailsa Craig Ardnamurchan Bass Rock Bell Rock Buchan Ness Cape Wrath Chanonry Corsewall Covesea Skerries Crammag Head Davaar Duncansby Head Dunnet Head Fidra Fife Ness Girdle Ness Holy Island (Outer) Inchkeith Isle of May Kinnaird Head Mull of Galloway Mull of Kintyre North Rona Noss Head Pladda Rattray Head Rubh Re St Abbs Head Sanda Scurdie Ness Stoer Head Strathy Point Stroma Sule Skerry Tarbat Ness Turnberry Minor lights

The Hebrides	Barra Head Butt of Lewis Dubh Artach Eilean Glas Flannan Islands Haskeir Hyskeir Lismore Monach Neist Point Ornsay Rinns of Islay Rona Ruvaal Scarinish Skerryvore Tiumpan Head Ushenish Minor lights

Orkney	Auskerry Brough of Birsay Cantick Head Copinsay Hoy Sound (High) Hoy Sound (Low) North Ronaldsay Noup Head Pentland Skerries Start Point Tor Ness Minor lights

Shetland	Bressay Eshaness Fair Isle North Fair Isle South Firths Voe Foula Hoo Stack Muckle Flugga Out Skerries Point of Fethaland Sumburgh Head Ve Skerries Minor lights

Isle of Man	Chicken Rock Douglas Head Langness (minor light) Maughold Head Point of Ayre Thousla Rock (minor light)

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Butt of Lewis Lighthouse

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