Muckle Flugga Lighthouse

Muckle Flugga lighthouse punctuates the rocky stack of Muckle Flugga, in Shetland, Scotland. Originally called North Unst Lighthouse, it was renamed in 1964.

Robert Louis Stevenson’s father and uncle designed and built the lighthouse here in 1854 and the writer visited it as a young man. As a result Unst became his inspiration for the map of 'Treasure Island'. The lighthouse is served by the life boat from the lifeboat station on the Unst. Supplies are generally transferred by winch, from the boat in a natural cleft of the rocks that provides a degree of harbourage.

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