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Description:
The original fourth-order Fresnel lens
from the Isle au Haut Lighthouse is on display at the Maine Lighthouse Museum in Rockland.
Photo Gallery: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Links: The Keeper's House Inn Purchase prints and gifts featuring photographs on this page Location: Located at the southern end of the passage between Isle au Haut and Kimball Island. Latitude: 44.064743 Longitude: -68.651376 For a larger map of Isle au Haut Lighthouse, click the lighthouse in the above map or get a map from: Mapquest. Travel Instructions: The lighthouse can be visited by taking a ferry to Isle au Haut from Stonington and then walking to the lighthouse. Old Quarry Ocean Adventures offers a scheduled Lighthouse Boat Trip that includes Point Robinson Lighthouse, and you can also arrange your own excursion with Guided Island Tours. The lighthouse was operated as the Keeper's House Inn for several years and is currently for sale. If you are looking for a place to stay in the area, the Inn on the Harbor in Stonington is a fine choice. They also have the lighthouse stamps for eight local lighthouses, including Isle au Haut. The tower is owned by the Town of Isle au Haut. Grounds open. Dwelling/tower closed. Find the closest hotels to Isle au Haut Lighthouse Notes from a friend: Kraig writes:If you plan on making a trip to Isle Au Haut, reading The Lobster Chronicles by Linda Greenlaw is, in my opinion, a prerequisite. Through her frank and humorous storytelling, Greenlaw makes you feel like a long-time resident of the island’s small community. The book also provides some insight into the history of the Isle Au Haut or Robinson Point Lighthouse, as it was Greenlaw’s great-grandfather, Charles Robinson, who sold the parcel of land on Robinson Point to the government. The lighthouse, the last traditional one built in Maine, was lit for the first time on Christmas Eve of 1907. Only two keepers lived on the point, before the light was automated in 1934 and the dwelling was sold to Greenlaw’s grandparents. Sharing the lighthouse property between numerous aunts, uncles, and cousins proved divisive, and the family put it on the market in 1986. Jeff and Judi Burke purchased the dwelling and converted it into the Keeper’s House Inn. See our List of Lighthouses in Maine |
Pictures on this page copyright Kraig Anderson, used by permission.