Noup Head Lighthouse

Noup Head Lighthouse
Noup Head Lighthouse in 2006
Orkney
Location	Noup Head Westray Orkney Scotland United Kingdom
Coordinates	59°19′52″N 3°04′13″W / 59.331104°N 3.070324°W / 59.331104; -3.070324Coordinates: 59°19′52″N 3°04′13″W / 59.331104°N 3.070324°W / 59.331104; -3.070324
Year first constructed	1898
Automated	1964
Construction	masonry tower
Tower shape	cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern
Markings / pattern	white tower, black lantern, ochre trim
Height	24 metres (79 ft)
Focal height	79 metres (259 ft)
Light source	solar power
Range	22 nautical miles (41 km; 25 mi)
Characteristic	Fl W 30s.
Admiralty number	A3736
NGA number	3292
ARLHS number	SCO-158
Managing agent	Northern Lighthouse Board^[1] ^[2]

Noup Head Lighthouse lies on the north west headland of the isle of Westray, in Orkney, Scotland. It was constructed by David A Stevenson in 1898 for the Northern Lighthouse Board.

The lighthouse was converted to solar power using a solar array in 2001.

References

↑ Noup Head The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 26 May 2016
↑ Noup Head Northern Lighthouse Board. Retrieved 26 May 2016

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Lighthouses of the Northern Lighthouse Board

Scotland (except principal island groups)	Ailsa Craig Ardnamurchan Bass Rock Bell Rock Buchan Ness Cape Wrath Chanonry Corsewall Covesea Skerries Crammag Head Davaar Duncansby Head Dunnet Head Fidra Fife Ness Girdle Ness Holy Island (Outer) Inchkeith Isle of May Kinnaird Head Mull of Galloway Mull of Kintyre North Rona Noss Head Pladda Rattray Head Rubh Re St Abbs Head Sanda Scurdie Ness Stoer Head Strathy Point Stroma Sule Skerry Tarbat Ness Turnberry Minor lights

The Hebrides	Barra Head Butt of Lewis Dubh Artach Eilean Glas Flannan Islands Haskeir Hyskeir Lismore Monach Neist Point Ornsay Rinns of Islay Rona Ruvaal Scarinish Skerryvore Tiumpan Head Ushenish Minor lights

Orkney	Auskerry Brough of Birsay Cantick Head Copinsay Hoy Sound (High) Hoy Sound (Low) North Ronaldsay Noup Head Pentland Skerries Start Point Tor Ness Minor lights

Shetland	Bressay Eshaness Fair Isle North Fair Isle South Firths Voe Foula Hoo Stack Muckle Flugga Out Skerries Point of Fethaland Sumburgh Head Ve Skerries Minor lights

Isle of Man	Chicken Rock Douglas Head Langness (minor light) Maughold Head Point of Ayre Thousla Rock (minor light)

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