Michael's List of Scottish Lighthouses

Michael’s Comprehensive List of Scottish Lights

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"A Work of Great Scholarship"
(see News, 22 October, below)

THIS IS THE HOME PAGE of Michael's List, which will, unless Death beats us to it, be an illustrated list of all lighted marine navigational structures around the Scottish coast. Aero lights are not included. On first publication, the List shows lights in the south-east corner of Scotland, the coastlines of the Scottish Borders, the Lothians and Fife. Further Sections will be published from time to time.

Lights are organised into geographical Sections, and to keep loading times short only tower structures are illustrated on first loading. Links are provided to images of other structures.

Images on this website are, unless otherwise noted within the List, all taken by a digital camera and are presented at the reduced resolution of 640 by 480 pixels. The website is best viewed at a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels.

Warning

AN AMERICAN WEBSITE dealing (quite legitimately) with saltwater aquaria uses the URL scotlights.com as part of its marketing activity. This is nothing to do with Michael!

News

30 July 2009:

Section E uploaded for the first time (hi, Carena!)

Section F renumbered into the main sequence, taking the list as far as M084. There are still a number of blanks in Section F.

Feedback page repaired. Michael's readers can at last talk to him!

Introduction page: definitions of framework structures revised

01 August 2009:

Section S uploaded for the first time

21 August 2009:

Links in Section S corrected

22 October 2009:

This website described in The Oldie as "clearly a work of great scholarship." Does this say more about the website or more about The Oldie?

16 November 2009:

Images provided of lights round Cromarty Forth and ports close north, and also of Auckengill and Thurso (Section F) and of Longman Point and the Kessock Bridge (Section E). Both these Sections are now complete

Links to the Sections

Section A Burnmouth to River Carron (79 structures)
Section B Longannet to Crail (70 structures)
Section C Fife Ness to Buddon Ness (77 structures)
Section D Arbroath to Fraserburgh (64 structures)
Section E Kinnaird Head to Inverness (71 structures)
Section F North Kessock to Loch Eriboll (65 structures)
Section N Orkney Islands (79 structures)
Section S Lewis and Harris (57 structures)

Total so far listed, 562 structures; expected overall total, about 1200

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Copyright Statement

COPYRIGHT in all images on this website remains the property of Michael Spencer the Webmaster, who has asserted his rights in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Images may be used in websites in the pharology field without charge, but acknowledgment to Michael Spencer and a link to this website should be made.

Copyright in the information as to heights of structures and characters of lights belongs to the Commissioners of Northern Lights operating as the Northern Lighthouse Board, and this notice is intended to fulfil the terms of the relevant Acts of Parliament.