A double delight

OMG lighthouses AND abandonment! It is WebUrbanist's "Lights Out!: seven more eerie abandoned lighthouses"
7 scenic sentinels slowly succumbing to the endless onslaught of wind and waves stand – barely – as solitary reminders of a time when fog-piercing lighthouse beams guided wayward mariners from the cold clutches of the devil and the deep blue sea. Often built in isolated locations beset by the harshest of environments, these relics of a more romantic age are gradually giving up the ghost, ravaged by the same seas they sought to make safer for sailors. Last one to leave, please shut the door and turn out the light.

Mys Aniva Lighthouse on the rocky outcrop

 Mys Aniva lighthouse, built under extremely difficult conditions on a formerly jagged rock just off the southeastern-most cape of Sakhalin island, Russia. Firstly, Japan ordered the lighthouse built in the late 1930s when Sakhalin was divided between that country and the USSR. The Soviets seized the whole of Sakhalin at the end of World War II, they installed a Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator to supply electricity to the lamp. The fall of communism in the early 1990s led to a decade of near-chaos with funds in short supply. The Mys Aniva lighthouse, isolated though it was and is, was looted, ransacked and abandoned.

Looking derelict Grand Harbor Lighthouse

The Grand Harbour Lighthouse and attached keeper’s house at Fish Fluke Point on Ross Island, New Brunswick, Canada opened in the fall of 1879 and has been in a state of slow-motion collapse since the station was closed in 1963. The once-picturesque lighthouse’s degeneration was accelerated by the great Groundhog Day Gale of 1976, but the wood-framed complex hangs on.

Klein Curacao

Klein Curacao Lighthouse on the Caribbean island of Curacao was constructed in 1850 on the tiny, (3 km square) island situated 10 kms south-east of the mother island. In 1877 a powerful hurricane destroyed the original lighthouse and in 1879 a stronger replacement was built. It was subsequently storm-damaged and repaired again in 1913. Though the lighthouse had been abandoned and left to decay, the light itself was recently reactivated and an automatic solar-powered LED beacon was installed.

Though shattered by two decades of on and off civil war, the city of Mogadishu in Somalia has a long and prosperous history based on sea trading. The Mogadishu Lighthouse was built in the 19th century by Italian colonisers. Its light long dimmed and its open spiral staircase on the verge of collapse, the lighthouse ruins serve as a shady retreat for fishermen.
 

The remains of the Mogadishu Lighthouses's spiral staircase

Great Isaac Cay Lighthouse was built in 1859 on tiny Great Isaac Cay in the Bahamas. The rusting 152ft tall tower is surrounded by a group of decrepit and decaying outbuildings abandoned after the last two keepers mysteriously vanished in 1969. The lighthouse still functions using an automatic light. It has acquired a reputation for being haunted by the ghosts of shipwrecked ship passengers - when the full moon shines, the spectral shades of a mother and child shipwrecked off the island in the late 19th century can be heard bemoaning their fate.

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