- Muckle Flugga Lighthouse
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Muckle Flugga Lighthouse 
Location Muckle Flugga, Shetland, Scotland Coordinates 60°51′18″N 0°52′59″W / 60.855°N 0.883°WCoordinates: 60°51′18″N 0°52′59″W / 60.855°N 0.883°W Year first constructed 1855-1857 Year first lit 1854(temporary light) 1858(permanent light) Automated 1995 Construction Brick Tower shape Circular cylinder Markings / pattern White Height 20 m Focal height 66 m Range 32 Km Characteristic White Gp.Fl.(2) every 20 secs Muckle Flugga lighthouse punctuates the rocky stack of Muckle Flugga, in Shetland, Scotland. Originally called North Unst Lighthouse, it was renamed in 1964.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s father and uncle designed and built the lighthouse here in 1854[1] and the writer visited it as a young man. As a result Unst became his inspiration for the map of 'Treasure Island'. The lighthouse was served by the Grace Darling which was launched from the boat house below the lighthouse shore station in Burrafirth . Supplies were winched up by the blondin cable hoist to the courtyard, from the boat in a natural cleft of the rocks that provides a degree of harbourage.
This lighthouse was also used as a setting for the wartime comedy, now in Public Domain, "Back-Room Boy".
References
Categories:- Buildings and structures completed in 1854
- Category A listed buildings in Scotland
- Listed buildings in Shetland
- Listed lighthouses in Scotland
- Lighthouses in Shetland
- Scottish building and structure stubs
- Lighthouse stubs
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