CasquetsLighthouse is an active lighthouse located on the rocky Les Casquets, Alderney, Channel Islands. Originally the lighthouse was one of three lighthouses...
Les Casquets or (The) Casquets (/kæsˈkɛts/ kas-KETS) is a group of rocks eight miles (13 km) northwest of Alderney in the Channel Islands; they are administered...
formerly knew it as "the Eagle's Nest". Ortac and Alderney, along with the Casquets, are part of the same sandstone ridge. Paul Naftel, a Guernsey artist,...
as many were cut down in the 17th century to fuel the lighthouses on Alderney and the Casquets. Those trees that remain include cabbage trees (due to...
a raid on the Casquetslighthouse in the Channel Islands by British Commandos during World War II. The Commandos captured the lighthouse and its occupants...
1820 was advocating its use in British lighthouses. The French Commission des Phares [FR] (Commission of Lighthouses) was established by Napoleon in 1811...
the top of the tower (transplanted from one of the decommissioned Casquetslighthouse towers) and the light was made dioptric. At the same time the visible...
mostly following a coastal route, from Braye Road to Mannez Quarry and Lighthouse. The railway is run by volunteers and usually operates during summer weekends...
Guernsey, Jersey and Sark. Lists of lighthouses and lightvessels Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Jersey". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina...
— British raid on Saint Nazaire. Dryad (1942) — commando raid on Casquetslighthouse in the Channel islands Fahrenheit (1942) — commando raid at Pointe...
about a possible lighthouse on the Pleinmont cliff top, they wrote back saying a lighthouse was not necessary as the lights on Les Casquets and at Portland...
the lighthouses of Eddystone and the Casquets in Book II, Chapter XI in the first part, where the author contrasts three types of beacon or lighthouse ('Le...
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