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Eddystone Lighthouse

The Eddystone Lighthouse is a lighthouse on the , 9 statute miles south of in , England. The rocks are submerged, and are composed of Precambrian gneiss.
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  • Type: Lighthouse
  • Description: lighthouse on the Eddystone Rocks, England
  • Also known as: “Eddystone Light”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Eddystone Rocks.

Island
Photo: Pline, Public domain.
The Eddystone or are a seaswept and eroded group of rocks ranging 9 miles southwest of in , England, United Kingdom. Although the nearest point on the mainland to the Eddystone is in Cornwall, the rocks fall within the city limits of Plymouth, and hence within the county of .

Eddystone Lighthouse

Latitude
50.18375° or 50° 11′ 2″ north
Longitude
-4.26804° or 4° 16′ 5″ west
Open location code
9C2Q5PMJ+GQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 826383904
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­lighthouse
Wiki­data ID
Q546122
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Tamil—“Eddystone Lighthouse” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Էդիսթոն փարոս”
  • Bulgarian: “Едистоун”
  • Chinese: “埃迪斯通灯塔”
  • Croatian: “Svjetionik Eddystone”
  • Czech: “Eddystonský maják”
  • Dutch: “Eddystone Lighthouse”
  • Dutch: “vuurtoren van Eddystone”
  • Dutch: “Vuurtoren van Eddystone”
  • Finnish: “Eddystone”
  • French: “phare d’Eddystone”
  • French: “Phare d’Eddystone”
  • German: “Eddystone Lighthouse”
  • German: “Eddystone-Leuchtturm”
  • Hebrew: “מגדלור אדיסטון”
  • Hungarian: “Eddystone-világítótorony”
  • Italian: “Faro di Eddystone”
  • Japanese: “エディストン灯台”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Eddystone fyr”
  • Polish: “Latarnia morska Eddystone”
  • Portuguese: “Farol de Eddystone”
  • Russian: “Маяк Эдистон”
  • Spanish: “Faro de Eddystone”
  • Tamil: “எடிசுட்டன் கலங்கரை விளக்கம்”

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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 “Eddystone Lighthouse”. Photo: Pline, Public domain.