Sutherland and Caithness
Dunnet Head Lighthouse - Caithness
Dunnet Head with Orkney in the background only 6.75 miles away across the Pentland Firth. At 58 degrees north, geographically it is the most northerly point on mainland Britain, 2.35 miles further north than John O Groats. Dunnet Head lighthouse is only 66 feet high, it is perched on a 280-foot sheer cliff face, which places the light almost 350 feet above sea level. The lighthouse was built in 1831 by Robert Stevenson, an esteemed lighthouse designer and grandfather of Kidnapped and Treasure Island author Robert Louis Stevenson. You can imagine how visits to remote lighthouses must have inspired these books! By the time Dunnet Head was built, Robert Stevenson had completed 10 other lighthouse projects around the Scottish coast – all remarkable feats of engineering which have withstood the test of time.
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