Today’s mystery is a picture from the past. See if you can identify where this photograph was taken. Send your thoughts to elliott@brack.net, and include your hometown.
The most recent mystery was immediately solved by Lynn Naylor of Norcross. “It is “Þrídrangaviti Lighthouse” (transliterated as Thridrangaviti), an active lighthouse 4.5 miles off the southwest coast of Iceland, in the archipelago of Vestmannaeyjar. It is often described as one of the most isolated lighthouses in the world. Þrídrangar means ‘three rock pillars.’ referring to the three named sea stacks at that location: Stóridrangur (on which the lighthouse stands), Þúfudrangur, and Klofadrangur. Þrídrangaviti Lighthouse was constructed during 1938 and 1939. It was originally built by hand without machinery, and it was accessible only by scaling the tallest of the three rocky stacks, whose top is 120 feet above the sea. The lighthouse was commissioned on July 5, 1942.”
The idea for this mystery came from Tom Merkel of Berkeley Lake, sending in a copyrighted photo, which GwinnettForum cannot use. This photograph came from Wikipedia.
Readers also recognizing the photo include Stew Ogilvie, Lawrenceville; Jay Altman, Columbia, S.C.; George Graf, Palmyra, Va.; Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill; Barbara Dawson, Dahlonega; and Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex, who wrote: “My wife and I visited the Westland Islands during our recent trip to Iceland, and we did see several of these types of basalt rock formations out in the North Atlantic. However, I was not aware that one of them had a lighthouse perched on top.”
Lou Camerio of Lilburn added: “It is the most remote lighthouse in the world. I doubt I’ll ever go there.”
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The colors of fall, 2023, are fading fast. This spreading maple tree was captured two weeks ago in its full color. Soon all its branches will be bare, and we’ll await another year to see it blossom again in color.
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