Strathy Point Lighthouse
| Strathy Point Lighthouse | |||
 Strathy Point Lighthouse in July 2007 | |||
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| Location | |||
| Location: | Strathy Point | ||
| Location: | 58°35’56"N, 4°1’7"W | ||
| Characteristics | |||
| Height: | 46 feet | ||
| Tower shape: | quadrangular tower on top of the keeper's house | ||
| Tower marking: | white tower, black lantern, ochre trim | ||
| Light: | Fl W 20s. | ||
| Focal height: | 148 feet (when operational) | ||
| Range: | 26 nautical miles (when operational) | ||
| History | |||
| Built 1958 | |||
| Information | |||
| Owned by: | Private | ||
Strathy Point Lighthouse is a remote, deactivated lighthouse that stands on the north coast of Sutherland, at Strathy Point, near the hamlet of Totegan. The Point is a headland jutting sharply in the Atlantic along the easterly stretch of Sutherland's north coast
Strathy Point was built by the Northern Lighthouse Board in 1958 and was the first of the Board's lighthouses built specifically built to be electrically operated. It was initially planned in 1953 and was completed by 1958. The lighting device itself is a two panel device with a focal length of 250 mm with a 250 watt light bulb, that gives a range of almost 26 miles. The lighthouse was originally fitted with a fog horn, which was later discontinued.
The Station was fully automated in 1997 to be telemetered from the Northern Lighthouse Board Headquarters in Edinburgh.
In 2012 however the Northern Lighthouse Board determined that it need no longer maintain a lighthouse at Strathy Point. The lighthouse was deactivated and sold to a private owner.[1]
