Fife Ness

Fife Ness Lighthouse

Fife Ness Light, August 2008
Scotland
Location Fife Ness
Crail
Fife
Scotland
United Kingdom
Coordinates 56°16′44″N 2°35′09″W / 56.278834°N 2.585789°W / 56.278834; -2.585789
Year first constructed 1975
Construction concrete building
Tower shape lantern attached to 1-storey building
Markings / pattern white building
Height 5 metres (16 ft)
Focal height 12 metres (39 ft)
Light source mains power
Range white: 21 nautical miles (39 km; 24 mi)
red: 20 nautical miles (37 km; 23 mi)
Characteristic Iso WR 10s.
Admiralty number A3102
NGA number 2612
ARLHS number SCO-081
Managing agent Northern Lighthouse Board[1] [2]


Fife Ness (Scottish Gaelic: Rubha Fiobha) is a headland forming the most eastern point in Fife. Anciently the area was called Muck Ross, which is a corruption of the Scottish Gaelic Muc-Rois meaning "Headland of the Pigs".[3] It is situated in the area of Fife known as the East Neuk, and forms the muzzle of the dog-like outline of the latter when viewed on a map. Ness is an archaic Norse word meaning "nose"),

Fife Ness was [4] home to a Coastguard station and an important Northern Lighthouse Board lighthouse built in 1975 on project by P. H. Hyslop, warning shipping of the headland and the North Carr shoals. The lighthouse was built to replace the last in a series of lightvessels that guarded the treacherous rocks, as it had proved impossible to build a permanent lighthouse on the rocks themselves.

Fife Ness is also surrounded by the links terrain of Crail Golfing Society.

See also


References

  1. ↑ Fife Ness The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 16 May 2016
  2. ↑ Fife Ness Northern Lighthouse Board. Retrieved 16 May 2016
  3. ↑ Sibbald, Robert, The History of Fife, p4
  4. ↑ until late 2012 - see theguardian.com after considerable controversy along with other similar stations


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Coordinates: 56°16′44″N 2°35′10″W / 56.279°N 2.586°W / 56.279; -2.586

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