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» See Cortes Bank for the 'Bishop Rock' in the Pacific Ocean.
Bishop Rock is a small rock at the westernmost tip of the
Isles of Scilly, known for its
lighthouse, and listed in the
Guinness Book of Records as the smallest
island, with a building on it, in the world.
Containing room for nothing more than the uninhabited 45 metre tall lighthouse, the rock acts as the barrier between
Great Britain and the
Atlantic Ocean. The original lighthouse was begun in
1847, but was washed away before it could be completed. The present building was completed in
1858 and was first lit on
1 September of that year.
Bishop Rock is also the eastern end of the
North Atlantic shipping route used by ocean liners in the first half of the
20th century, the western end being the entrance to
Lower New York Bay. The ship with the fastest time (in either direction) between a line of longitude running through
Bishop Rock and the end point at the approach to
New York Harbor (first
Sandy Hook,
New Jersey and later
Ambrose Light) claimed the '
Blue Riband' for the fastest crossing.
Lighthouse
Bishop Rock Lighthouse is operated remotely by
Trinity House. A warning to shipping is necessary given the danger posed by the rocks around the islands - Sir
Cloudesley Shovell's squadron of ships was lost there in
1707. The lighthouse was designed by
James Walker and shone its first light on
1 September,
1858. In
1881, Sir
James Nicholas Douglass inspected it and made plans to reinforce it; the work was completed in
1887.
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