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East-entrance Dover Strait / South Foreland (High) Lighthouse |
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Album name: | Hans de Graaf / England | ||
Rating (1 votes): | (Show details) | ||
Current status (active, not active, museum etc): | Inactive since 1988 | ||
Construction details (year of built, shape etc): | 1843 | ||
Height of the tower, m: | 21 | ||
Coordinates (in any format): | 51.140462,1.371137 | ||
Displayed: | 320 times | ||
Date added: | Mar 03, 2012 | ||
Keywords: | Dover / England / United Kingdom / English channel | ||
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The lighthouse was the scene of a famous experiment on Christmas Eve 1898, when Guglielmo Marconi succeeded in contacting the lightship Goodwin Sands using his newly-invented radio equipment. (Russ Rowlett site)
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