Casquets lighthouses Casquets lighthouses Casquets Lighthouse is an active lighthouse located on the rocky Les Casquets, Alderney, Channel Islands. Casquets Lighthouse is the latest in a series of three lights on Les Casquets. The first lighthouses started operation on 30 October 1724, and were three towers lit by coal fires called St Peter, St Thomas and the Dungeon. Three stone towers were built to give the lights a distinctive appearance which would not be confused with lighthouses in nearby France. They were built by Thomas Le Cocq, owner of the rocks, under license from Trinity House and who was paid a halfpenny
Lighthouses in Chile 650 lighthouses in Chile and according to "Faros de Chile" 18 of them were inhabited in 2009. There are no lightvessels in Chile, but 2 shipwrecks are used as a basis for lighthouses: the "County of Peebles" is used as breakwater in the harbour of Punta Arenas, and the "Capitán Leonidas" is located in the Messier Channel. The Chilean official list of lighthouses is the "Lista de Faros de la costa de Chile, Costa Oriental de Tierra del Fuego y Territorio Antártico" published (as Nr. 3007) by the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Chilean Navy (SHOA) Navigational aids in