A 120-year-old lighthouse in Denmark, at risk from North Sea erosion of the country’s north-west coastline, was on Tuesday wheeled back from the cliff edge.
A 120-year-old lighthouse in Denmark, at risk from North Sea erosion of the country’s north-west coastline, was on Tuesday wheeled back from the cliff edge.
When the 23-meter lighthouse was first lit in 1900, it was roughly 200 meters from the coast; that distance shrank to a precarious six meters.
Moving the lighthouse, with the help of rails and wheels, was expected to last 10 hours, at a speed of eight meters an hour.
The lighthouse ceased operating in 1968 and was briefly turned into a museum. The surrounding dunes still attract more than 250,000 visitors each year.
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