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Fastnet Lighthouse

Fastnet Lighthouse is a 54-metre-tall lighthouse situated on the remote Fastnet Rock in the Atlantic Ocean. It is the most southerly point of Ireland and lies 6.5 kilometres southwest of and 13 kilometres from on the Irish mainland.
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Photo: Anthony Patterson, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Odd Wellies, CC BY 2.0.
  • Type: Lighthouse
  • Description: lighthouse in Ireland, built 1897
  • Also known as: “Fastnet Light” and “Fastnet Rock”

Fastnet Lighthouse

Latitude
51.38919° or 51° 23′ 21″ north
Longitude
-9.60289° or 9° 36′ 10″ west
Open location code
9C3G99QW+MR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 322520722
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­lighthouse
Geo­Names ID
11610977
Wiki­data ID
Q3067133
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Satellite Map

Discover Fastnet Lighthouse from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Ukrainian—“Fastnet Lighthouse” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Fastnet itsasargia”
  • Chinese: “法斯耐特灯塔”
  • Chinese: “燈塔島”
  • Dutch: “Fastnet Lighthouse”
  • Estonian: “Fastneti tuletorn”
  • French: “Fastnet (Phare)”
  • French: “phare du Fastnet”
  • French: “Phare du Fastnet”
  • Hebrew: “פסטנט רוק”
  • Irish: “teach solais Fastnet”
  • Portuguese: “Farol de Fastnet”
  • Swedish: “Fastnet (fyr)”
  • Swedish: “Fastnet”
  • Ukrainian: “Фастнет Рок”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Fastnet Lighthouse”. Photo: Anthony Patterson, CC BY 2.0.