Fife Ness

Fife Ness Lighthouse
	Fife Ness Light, August 2008
Location	Fife Ness; Crail; Fife; Scotland; United Kingdom
OS grid	NO6380809749
Coordinates	56°16′44″N 2°35′09″W / 56.278834°N 2.585789°W
Tower
Constructed	1975
Designed by	Peter H. Hyslop
Construction	concrete building
Height	5 metres (16 ft)
Shape	lantern attached to 1-storey building
Markings	white building
Power source	mains electricity
Operator	Northern Lighthouse Board
Heritage	category B listed building
Light
Focal height	12 metres (39 ft)
Range	white: 21 nautical miles (39 km; 24 mi); red: 20 nautical miles (37 km; 23 mi)
Characteristic	Iso WR 10s.

Fife Ness (Scottish Gaelic: Rubha Fiobha) is a headland forming the most eastern point in Fife, Scotland. Anciently the area was called Muck Ross, which is a corruption of the Scottish Gaelic Muc-Rois meaning "Headland of the Pigs".^[3] It is situated in the area of Fife known as the East Neuk, and forms the muzzle of the dog-like outline of the latter when viewed on a map. Ness is a Scots word meaning "headland".^[4]

Fife Ness was home to a Coastguard station until 2012^[5] and an important Northern Lighthouse Board lighthouse built in 1975 on project by P. H. Hyslop, warning shipping of the headland and the North Carr shoals. The lighthouse was built to replace the last in a series of lightvessels that guarded the treacherous rocks, as it had proved impossible to build a permanent lighthouse on the rocks themselves.

Fife Ness is also surrounded by the links terrain of Crail Golfing Society.

References

^ Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Southeastern Scotland". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
^ Fife Ness Northern Lighthouse Board. Retrieved 16 May 2016
^ Sibbald, Robert, The History of Fife, p4
^ "Dictionaries of the Scots Language:: SND :: ness".
^ Topham, Gwyn (27 September 2012). "Over and out: Forth coastguard signs off". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 November 2018.

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56°16′44″N 2°35′10″W / 56.279°N 2.586°W / 56.279; -2.586

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[1] Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Southeastern Scotland". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 16 May 2016.

[2] Fife Ness Northern Lighthouse Board. Retrieved 16 May 2016

[3] Sibbald, Robert, The History of Fife, p4

[4] "Dictionaries of the Scots Language:: SND :: ness".

[5] Topham, Gwyn (27 September 2012). "Over and out: Forth coastguard signs off". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 November 2018.

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v t e Lighthouses of the Northern Lighthouse Board
Scotland (except principal island groups)	Ailsa Craig Ardnamurchan Bass Rock Bell Rock Buchan Ness Cape Wrath Chanonry Corran Point Corsewall Covesea Skerries Crammag Head Davaar Duncansby Head Dunnet Head Fidra Fife Ness Girdle Ness Holy Island (Outer) Inchkeith Isle of May Kinnaird Head Mull of Galloway Mull of Kintyre North Rona Noss Head Pladda Rattray Head Rubh Re St Abbs Head Sanda Scurdie Ness Stoer Head Strathy Point Stroma Sule Skerry Tarbat Ness Turnberry Minor lights
The Hebrides	Barra Head Butt of Lewis Dubh Artach Eilean Glas Flannan Islands Haskeir Hyskeir Lismore Monach Neist Point Ornsay Rinns of Islay Rubha nan Gall Rona Lighthouse Ruvaal Scarinish Skerryvore Tiumpan Head Ushenish Minor lights
Orkney	Auskerry Brough of Birsay Cantick Head Copinsay Hoy Sound (High) Hoy Sound (Low) North Ronaldsay Noup Head Pentland Skerries Start Point Tor Ness Minor lights
Shetland	Bressay Eshaness Fair Isle North Fair Isle South Firths Voe Foula Hoo Stack Little Holm Muckle Flugga Out Skerries Point of Fethaland Sumburgh Head Ve Skerries Minor lights
Isle of Man	Chicken Rock Douglas Head Langness (minor light) Maughold Head Point of Ayre Thousla Rock (minor light)

Authority control databases
International	VIAF
Fife Ness Lighthouse	ARLHS OLL Admiralty: A3102 NGA MarineTraffic

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