Erected atop a 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 the 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 necessitating "five trips a day by Chinese labourers".
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