Year first lit 1987 (current) Construction cast iron tower Height 18 m Year first constructed 1855 | Deactivated 1982 (first) Focal height 30 m Range 18,520 m | |
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Location Cape PembrokeFalkland Islands Tower shape cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern Markings / pattern black tower with a horizontal white band, black lantern Address FIQQ 1ZZ, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) | ||
Cape Pembroke (Spanish: Cabo San Felipe) is the easternmost point of the Falkland Islands, and is on East Falkland. There is an automated lighthouse here.
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Lighthouse
An automated 18 metres (59 ft) lighthouse on Cape Pembroke was built in 1855, and rebuilt in 1906, and was restored in the 1990s. Previously, the nearby Billy Rock offshore had claimed fifteen ships, and there were unlit markers here.
The original light used rape seed oil, but as it burnt a thousand gallons a year, sea lion oil was attempted as a substitute. When it was rebuilt in 1906, it was converted to paraffin and worked by clockwork. After World War II a less romantic structure was built to the east.
A small lighthouse keepers cottage used to stand here. The lighthouse itself, is now a listed building.
Farm and James Smith
In the late nineteenth century, Cape Pembroke peninsula was a small farm, which the islands' government leased to James Smith of Stanley. There were few such small farms in the islands and James Smith was ardent in his support of agrarian reform.