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- Erected atop a 240 meter (785 foot) cliff, the lighthouse makes a dramatic marker to ships and sailors negotiating the northwestern cape of the island, and an even more dramatic setting to bask in transcendental glows at sunset — if one can get there, that is. Its original lights, fueled by petroleum vapour, were first installed around 1900 by Chance Brother Smethwick of Birmingham. In 1954, these lights were replaced by the same firm using electric lamps, a task made immensely arduous by the inaccessibility of the tower, and was recorded as needing "five trips a day by Chinese labourers."
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- tel: +60 4 262 0202
- fax: +60 4 263 1020
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- Muka Head
- George Town 11000
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