LANDMARK
Hope Town (Elbow Reef) Lighthouse
The candy-striped Elbow Reef Lighthouse at Hope Town — one of the last hand-wound, kerosene-burning manual lighthouses still working anywhere in the world.
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About Hope Town (Elbow Reef) Lighthouse
The red-and-white-striped lighthouse standing over Hope Town harbour on Elbow Cay is an Abaco icon and a genuine rarity: built in the 1860s, it is one of the very last hand-wound, kerosene-burning manual lighthouses still in operation anywhere in the world, its light turned by a weight-driven mechanism a keeper still cranks by hand. Visitors can climb the tower for a sweeping view over Hope Town's pastel Loyalist cottages and the Sea of Abaco. It was restored after Hurricane Dorian.
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- Views, History, Photography
Where it is
Hope Town (Elbow Reef) Lighthouse on the map
While you're there What's on
Events in the area
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DEC
Junkanoo
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APR
National Family Island Regatta
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JUN
Long Island Regatta
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