Lighthouse rock

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I recently read the book 'The Lamplighters' by Emma Stonex. At its center is a fictional tower lighthouse, which is quite different from a lighthouse on land. There is no separate house attached, so it means months of living within the lighthouse itself separated from everyone except the two other lighthouse keepers. Though this is doesn't have a true tower lighthouse, I liked this result.

The Lamplighters is a fictional work based on an actual never-solved mystery of three missing lighthouse keepers from Eilean Mòr, a remote island in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. You can read more about that here: https://www.panmacmillan.com/blogs/literary/emma-stonex-the-lamplighters-flannan-isles-mystery

An extreme example of an actual tower lighthouse is the Bell Rock lighthouse, which was built in the early 1800s on a North Sea reef that is submerged at high tide. If you want to see what a tower lighthouse is like, check out the Bell Rock (Scotland), Bishop Rock (Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, UK), and Wolf Rock (Lands End, Cornwall, UK) lighthouses.

There's an informative documentary about building the Bell Rock Lighthouse. You can watch it here - https://youtu.be/AG80qbWHt7I?si=DWf89ClpHDGDU3TF (45 minutes)