- His name means ” The explorers “.
- It is on an islet in front of Ushuaia Bay.
- It has 11 meters high and 3 meters in diameter.
- It is known touristically as the lighthouse at the end of the world, but it is only one of them. The lighthouse of the end of the world, famous for the novel of Jules Verne, is the lighthouse of San Juan de Salvamento that is located in Isla de los Estados.
- It is built with bricks and painted in 3 stripes of red, white and red.
- Its color has a meaning: in the 70’s a navigation code was put in the world, an international maritime buoyage system, which indicated that according to how the lighthouse was painted was how it had to be bordered. In this case, the order of the colors meant that the navigator had to go around it from the East.
- The lighthouse began to function on December 23, 1920. It is already 100 years old!
- It was named by the navigator Luis Martial.
- It works remotely and uses solar panels.
- It is prohibited to disembark on the island, we can only observe it from the boats.
Did you know that you can visit Les Eclaireurs Lighthouse with our excursion that includes Beagle Channel navigation?
