This is a list of the currently operational
lighthouse
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.
Lighthouses m ...
s of the
Northern Lighthouse Board
The Northern Lighthouse Board (NLB) is the general lighthouse authority for Scotland and the Isle of Man. It is a non-departmental public body responsible for marine navigation aids around coastal areas.
History
The NLB was formed by Act of P ...
(NLB). The list is divided by geographical location, and then by whether the lighthouses are classed by the NLB as a 'major lighthouse' or a 'minor light'. Former NLB lighthouses now disposed of are not included in the list.
Scotland
Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to ...
(except principal island groups)
Major lighthouses
Minor lights
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Ardtornish
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Bass Rock
* Cailleach Head
* Cairnbulg Briggs
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Corran Narrows North East
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Corran Point
Corran ( gd, An Corran) is a former fishing village, situated on Corran Point, on the west side of the Corran Narrows of Loch Linnhe, in Lochaber, Highland, Scotland. There are three small settlements set apart from the main cluster of houses ...
* Craigton Point
* Dunollie
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Elie Ness
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Hestan Island
Hestan Island is a small coastal island at the southern foot of the River Urr estuary in the Solway Firth, in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland. This small island measures approximately and at its highest elevation sits a ...
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Holy Island (Inner)
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Lady Isle
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Little Ross
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Little Ross Beacon
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Loch Eriboll
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Loch Eriboll (Scottish Gaelic: "Loch Euraboil") is a long sea loch on the north coast of Scotland, which has been used for centuries as a deep water anchorage as it is safe from the often stormy seas of Cape Wrath and the Pentland Firt ...
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Loch Ryan
* Longman Point
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Oban NLB Pier
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Sandaig
Glenelg ( gd, Glinn Eilg, also ''Gleann Eilg'' is a scattered community area and civil parish in the Lochalsh area of Highland in western Scotland. Despite the local government reorganisation the area is considered by many still to be in Inver ...
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Sgeir Bhuidhe
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Sula Sgeir
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Turnberry
The
Hebrides
The Hebrides (; gd, Innse Gall, ; non, Suðreyjar, "southern isles") are an archipelago off the west coast of the Scottish mainland. The islands fall into two main groups, based on their proximity to the mainland: the Inner and Outer Hebri ...
Major lighthouses
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Barra Head
Barra Head, also known as Berneray ( gd, Beàrnaraigh; sco, Barra Heid), is the southernmost island of the Outer Hebrides in Scotland. Within the Outer Hebrides, it forms part of the Barra Isles archipelago. Originally, Barra Head only ...
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Butt of Lewis
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Dubh Artach
Dubh Artach (; ) is a remote skerry of basalt rock off the west coast of Scotland lying west of Colonsay and south-west of the Ross of Mull.
A lighthouse designed by Thomas Stevenson with a tower height of was erected between 1867 and 1872 ...
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Eilean Glas
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Flannan Islands
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Hyskeir
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Lismore
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Monach
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Neist Point
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Rinns of Islay
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Ruvaal
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Scarinish
Scarinish (Scottish Gaelic: ''Sgairinis'') is the main village on the island of Tiree, in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It is located on the south coast of the island, between Hynish Bay to the southwest and Gott Bay to the northeast. The harbo ...
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Skerryvore
Skerryvore (from the Gaelic ''An Sgeir Mhòr'' meaning "The Great Skerry") is a remote island that lies off the west coast of Scotland, southwest of Tiree. Skerryvore Lighthouse is located on these rocks, built with some difficulty between 1 ...
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Tiumpan Head
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Ushenish
Ushenish is a headland on the remote east coast of South Uist
South Uist ( gd, Uibhist a Deas, ; sco, Sooth Uist) is the second-largest island of the Outer Hebrides in Scotland. At the 2011 census, it had a usually resident population of 1,75 ...
Minor lights
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An T-Iasgair
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Ardmore
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Ardtreck
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Bunessan
* Cabbage North
* Cabbage South
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Cairn na Burgh More
A cairn is a man-made pile (or stack) of stones raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound. The word ''cairn'' comes from the gd, càrn (plural ).
Cairns have been and are used for a broad variety of purposes. In prehis ...
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Cairns of Coll
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Calvay
Calvay ( gd, Calbhaigh), is a currently uninhabited island situated in the Sound of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides, at . It is one of ten islands in the Sound of Barra, a Site of Community Importance for conservation.
It was here that the ship ...
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Canna
* Carragh an t'Sruith
* Carragh Mhor
* Channel Rock (
Castlebay
Castlebay ( gd, Bàgh a' Chaisteil) is the main village and a community council area on the island of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. The village is located on the south coast of the island, and overlooks a bay in the Atlantic Ocean domi ...
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* Crowlin
* Drowning Rock
* Duart Point
* Dubh Sgeir (
Castlebay
Castlebay ( gd, Bàgh a' Chaisteil) is the main village and a community council area on the island of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. The village is located on the south coast of the island, and overlooks a bay in the Atlantic Ocean domi ...
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* Dubh Sgeir (
Kerrera
Kerrera (; gd, Cearara or ''Cearrara'') is an island in the Scottish Inner Hebrides, close to the town of Oban. In 2016 it had a population of 45, divided into two communities in the north and south of the island.
Geology
The oldest bedrock ...
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* Dubh Sgeir (
Leverburgh)
* Dubh Sgeir (
Luing)
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Dunvegan
Dunvegan ( gd, Dùn Bheagain) is a village on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. It is famous for Dunvegan Castle, seat of the chief of Clan MacLeod. Dunvegan is within the parish of Duirinish, and Duirinish Parish Church is at Dunvegan. In 2011 i ...
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Eigg
* Eight Metre Rock
* Eilean a Chuirn
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Eilean Bàn
* Eilean nan Gabhar
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Eilean Trodday
* Eileanan Dubha
* Eyre Point
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Fladda
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Gamhna Gigha
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The Garvellachs
* Gasay Island
* Gasker
* Green Island
* Grey Rocks
* Janes Tower
* Kyle Rhea
* L2
* L2a
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Lady Rock
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Leverburgh (Front)
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Leverburgh (Rear)
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Loch Indaal (Rubh an Duin)
* McArthur's Head
* Milaid Point
* Na Cuiltean
* Narstay
* North Spit Of Kerrera
* Ornsay Beacon
* Port Ellen Sector
* Red Rock
* Reisa an T-struith
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Ruadh Sgeir
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Rubh'a Chruidh
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Rubh Glas (Front)
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Rubh Glas (Rear)
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Rubh Uisenis
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Rubha nan Gall
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Scalasaig
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Sgeir Chruaidh
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Sgeir-na-Cailleach
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Skervuile
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Sleat Point
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Vaternish
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Weavers Point
Weavers Point ( gd, Rubha an Fhigheadair) is a headland to the north of the entrance to Loch Maddy, on the north eastern coastline of North Uist in the Western Isles of Scotland. There has been a lighthouse on the headland since 1980.
Lighthouse
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Orkney
Orkney (; sco, Orkney; on, Orkneyjar; nrn, Orknøjar), also known as the Orkney Islands, is an archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland, situated off the north coast of the island of Great Britain. Orkney is 10 miles (16 km) north ...
Major lighthouses
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Auskerry
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Brough of Birsay
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Cantick Head
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Copinsay
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Hoy Sound (High)
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Hoy Sound (Low)
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North Ronaldsay
North Ronaldsay (, also , sco, North Ronalshee) is the northernmost island in the Orkney archipelago of Scotland. With an area of , it is the fourteenth-largest.Haswell-Smith (2004) p. 334 It is mentioned in the '' Orkneyinga saga''; in moder ...
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Noup Head
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Pentland Skerries
The Pentland Skerries (Old Norse: ''Pettlandssker'')Pedersen, Roy (January 1992) ''Orkneyjar ok Katanes'' (map, Inverness, Nevis Print) are a group of four uninhabited islands lying in the Pentland Firth, northeast of Duncansby Head and south of ...
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Start Point
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Tor Ness
Tor, TOR or ToR may refer to:
Places
* Tor, Pallars, a village in Spain
* Tor, former name of Sloviansk, Ukraine, a city
* Mount Tor, Tasmania, Australia, an extinct volcano
* Tor Bay, Devon, England
* Tor River, Western New Guinea, Indonesia
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Minor lights
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Barrel of Butter
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Calf of Eday
The Calf of Eday ( sco, Cauf o Aidee; non, Kalfr) is an uninhabited island in Orkney, Scotland, lying north east of Eday. It is known for its wildlife and its prehistoric ruins.
History
There is a Neolithic chambered cairn in the southwest ove ...
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Cava
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Helliar Holm
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Hoxa Head
* Lother Rock
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Papa Stronsay
* Roseness
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Ruff Reef
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Skerry of Ness
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Swona
Swona is an uninhabited privately-owned island in the Pentland Firth off the north coast of Scotland.
Geography and geology
Swona is the more northerly of two islands in the Pentland Firth between the Orkney Islands and Caithness on the Sco ...
Shetland
Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands and formerly Zetland, is a subarctic archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands and Norway. It is the northernmost region of the United Kingdom.
The islands lie about to the n ...
Major lighthouses
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Bressay
Bressay ( sco, Bressa) is a populated island in the Shetland archipelago of Scotland.
Geography and geology
Bressay lies due south of Whalsay, west of the Isle of Noss, and north of Mousa. With an area of , it is the fifth-largest island in She ...
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Eshaness
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Fair Isle North
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Fair Isle South
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Firths Voe
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Foula
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Muckle Flugga
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Out Skerries
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Point of Fethaland
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Sumburgh Head
Sumburgh Head is a headland located at the southern tip of the Shetland Mainland in northern Scotland. The head consists of a 100 m high rocky spur and topped by the Sumburgh Head Lighthouse. In the Old Norse language, Sumburgh Head was cal ...
Minor lights
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Bagi Stack
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Balta Sound
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Brother Isle
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Bullia Skerry
''Bullia'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.
Species
The following subgenera are recognized:
* ''Bullia'' (''Bullia'') Gray, 1834
* ''Bullia'' (''Cereobullia'') Me ...
* Fugla Ness
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Gruney
* Head Of Mula
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Hillswick
* Holm Of Skaw
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Hoo Stack
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Little Holm
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Lunna Holm
Lunna Holm is a small island near Lunna Ness (Mainland, Shetland), in the Shetland Islands. It is at its highest point.
Lighthouse
Lunna Holm Lighthouse is an active lighthouse located on Lunna Holm at the east entrance of Yell Sound. It was ...
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Mousa
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Muckle Holm
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Muckle Roe
* Muckle Skerry
* Mull of Eswick
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Ness Of Sound
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Outer Skerry
* Rova Head
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Rumble Rock
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Skate of Marrister
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Suther Ness
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Symbister Ness
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Uyea Sound Uyea (pronounced "oe-yë") may refer to:
* Uyea, Unst, an uninhabited island south of Unst in Shetland, Scotland
* Uyea, Northmavine, an uninhabited island northwest of Mainland, Shetland
See also
* Uyeasound
Uyeasound is a village on the Isl ...
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Vaila Sound
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Ve Skerries
The Ve Skerries or Vee Skerries ( non, Vestan sker, West Skerries) are a group of low skerries (rocky islands) north west of Papa Stour, on the west coast of Shetland, Scotland. They define the southwest perimeter of St Magnus Bay.
Skerries
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Wether Holm
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Whitehill
Isle of Man
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Major lighthouses
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Chicken Rock
Chicken Rock ( gv, Carrick ny Kirkey), part of Rushen parish, is the southernmost island administered by the Isle of Man. It lies southwest of the Calf of Man, off Spanish Head on the Manx mainland. The most prominent feature of the rock is the ...
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Douglas Head
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Maughold Head
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Point of Ayre
Minor lights
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Langness
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Thousla Rock
See also
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List of lighthouses in Scotland
References
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* The Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses' Aids to Navigation Map 2012
{{Lighthouses of the Northern Lighthouse Board
Northern Lighthouse Board
The Northern Lighthouse Board (NLB) is the general lighthouse authority for Scotland and the Isle of Man. It is a non-departmental public body responsible for marine navigation aids around coastal areas.
History
The NLB was formed by Act of P ...