LIGHTHOUSES · 1885
Roter Sand Lighthouse, Germany
A first caisson was lost in a storm before the second attempt succeeded. The light was switched off in 1986, and the tower is now a monument.
The story, as a puzzle
A tower sunk into the seabed.
Completed in 1885 in the open North Sea, this was one of the first lighthouses built on a caisson sunk into the seabed. Pin it.
Where it is
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