Everything tagged "lighthouse" | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

Everything tagged "lighthouse"

Signal Hill & Lighthouse

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Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1960
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1920s Gap Rock Lighthouse

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Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1920
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Gap Rock Lighthouse [1892- ]

Date Place completed: 
1892-04-01

(Switch to the satellite view - click here - to get a better view of the lighthouse.)

There is some background on the lighthouse in the comments to this photo on Flickr.

The document "Hong Kong's Lighthouses and the men who manned them" says the light first shone in April 1892, and continued in use until the Japanese invasion in 1941.

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