Phare de la Pointe St-Mathieu. Photographer: Unknown
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General view of the lighthouse at Pointe de St Mathieu, surrounded by the ruins of the abbey, whose belltower served as the original lighthouse. The tower seen here was built in 1835.
View from the cliffs above, looking down onto the small island (joined to the mainland by a bridge) on which the lighthouse, completed in 1848. Seen from the Portzic lighthouse, this lighthouse indicates the line of navigation into the Brest Channel.
View from the hillside above, looking down onto the octagonal tower of the Portzic Lighthouse, built with the Petit-Minou lighthouse in 1848, to guide shipping into the Brest Channel.
View of the two iron light towers, situated at the end of the jetties on either side of the harbour mouth and indicating the channel into Brest harbour. In the distance, out in the roadstead on the right, can be seen the headland on which the Portzic light stands (see print 27)
Feu de la falaise du Raz de Sein. Photographer: Unknown
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View looking up the rocky slope towards the iron lighthouse above, completed in 1875 to guide shipping through the hazardous passage of the Raz de Sein. Largely obscured in the background, with only its top visible, is the Bec du Raz light.
View of the circular lighthouse tower of Penmarch, on the south-western extremity of the Quimper peninsula. The smaller square semaphore tower to the left was probably the original lighthouse, in use before the completion of its successor in 1835.