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Minnesota · United States of America

Split Rock Lighthouse

Watercolour painting of Split Rock Lighthouse, a octagonal steel-and-brick tower atop a 40 m cliff in Minnesota, United States of America
Built
Structure
Octagonal steel-and-brick tower atop a 40 m cliff
Height
14 m · focal plane 51 m
Characteristic
Fl W 10s (historic; retired 1969)

47°12′01″N 91°22′03″W

The light was decommissioned in 1969, but every November 10th it is switched back on for one night, at the hour the ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald went down on Lake Superior.

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