Brough of Birsay Lighthouse

Brough of Birsay Lighthouse
Brough of Birsay Lighthouse
Location	off Mainland, Orkney, Scotland
Coordinates	59°08′13″N 3°20′21″W / 59.13683°N 3.33911°W / 59.13683; -3.33911Coordinates: 59°08′13″N 3°20′21″W / 59.13683°N 3.33911°W / 59.13683; -3.33911
Year first constructed	1925
Year first lit	1925
Automated	converted to solar power in 2002
Construction	castellated tower
Focal height	52m
Intensity	35 watt Metal Halide light
Range	18 nautical miles (33 km; 21 mi)
Characteristic	Flashing (3) White every 25 Secs^[1]

The unmanned Brough of Birsay Lighthouse lighthouse was built in 1925 by David A Stevenson.^[1] It is located on the Brough of Birsay, an uninhabited tidal island off the north west coast of Mainland in Orkney, Scotland, in the parish of Birsay.

Notes

1 2 "Brough of Birsay Lighthouse". Northern Lighthouse Board. Retrieved 5 March 2010.

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 Lighthouse 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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