Cape Wrath Lighthouse
Cape Wrath Lighthouse at Cape Wrath was built in 1828 by Robert Stevenson and was manned until 1998, when it was converted to automatic operation by the Northern Lighthouse Board.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Lighthouse
- Description: lighthouse located at the most North-Westerly point of the British mainland, in Sutherland, Scotland
- Also known as: “Cape Wrath” and “Cape Wrath Lighthouse, Cottages And Support Buildings”
Cape Wrath Lighthouse
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.62548° or 58° 37′ 32″ northLongitude
-4.99916° or 4° 59′ 57″ westElevation
223 feet (68 metres)Open location code
9CCQJ2G2+58OpenStreetMap ID
node 194470712OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=lighthouse
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In Other Languages
From French to Polish—“Cape Wrath Lighthouse” goes by many names.
- French: “phare de Cap Wrath”
- French: “Phare de Cap Wrath”
- German: “Cape Wrath Lighthouse”
- Polish: “Latarnia morska Cape Wrath”
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