Sunday Stamps | Lighthouses on Islands

Today's theme on Sunday Stamps is Islands. And, of course, the best islands are those with a lighthouse.

Île Vierge (Enez-Werc'h) is an islet lying 1,5 kilometres off the north-west coast of Brittany It is the location of the tallest stone lighthouse in Europe, and the tallest "traditional lighthouse" in the world. 

Terschelling (Skylge / Schylge) is an island in the northern Netherlands, one of the West Frisian Islands. The Brandaris is the oldest preserved tower specifically built as a lighthouse in the Netherlands.

Byriuchyi Island (Бирючий Острів) is a spit (former island) in the north-western part of the Azov Sea. Its name is translated as 'a wolf island' (byriuk= 'a lone-wolf').

Sand Island Light is a decommissioned lighthouse located at the southernmost point of the state of Alabama. It is on the Lighthouse Digest Doomsday List, as one of the most endangered lighthouses in the country. It was damaged by Hurricane Ivan in 2004 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005. 

Liberty Island is a federally owned island in Upper New York Bay in the United States. Its most notable feature is the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World), a large statue by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi that was dedicated in 1886. Long known as Bedloe's Island, it was renamed by an act of the United States Congress in 1956. The statue was administered by the United States Lighthouse Board until 1901, and then transferred to the War Department, as it had proved useless as a lighthouse.