Tistlarna lighthouse, Maritime lighthouse in Gothenburg Municipality, Sweden
Tistlarna lighthouse is a 10-metre circular white tower with a double gallery and a large black lantern, attached to a whitewashed brick keeper's house on the outer Tistlarna islands. Its focal plane is 23 metres, and it shows two long white flashes every 15 seconds with a range of 18 nautical miles.
A simple pilot station was set up at Tistlarna in 1805 so the pilots of Vrångö could meet ships early; a full pilot station followed in 1870 and the lighthouse building was erected in 1906. The light was manned until 1969, when electricity reached the island, the keepers left and the tower was repainted white. The station buildings were sold into private hands in 1991, while the light remains with the Swedish Maritime Administration.
The lighthouse appears in the SVT B television series Svaleskär, broadcast in spring 2011. The station's keeper buildings were sold in 1991 and are now privately owned, while the light itself remains in the hands of the Swedish Maritime Administration.
The lighthouse stands on Yttre Tistlarna, the southernmost group of the Gothenburg archipelago, about 6 km southwest of Vrångö; the islands are reached by boat, not on foot. The station buildings were sold into private hands in 1991, while the tower remains the Swedish Maritime Administration's. The light shows two long white flashes every 15 seconds, visible 18 nautical miles out.
The original second-order Fresnel lens, made by the French firm Henry Lepaute, still sits in the lantern but is no longer in use; a light on a mast atop the dome replaced it. The keeper's buildings were sold into private hands in 1991, while the tower remains with the Swedish Maritime Administration.
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