How far you can see a lighthouse
How far out at sea you can see 3,642 lighthouses: each circle is the range of its light.
3,642 places
Data: Data: Wikidata (CC0); status partly © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photos: Wikimedia Commons, credited on each photo.
About this map
Every lighthouse on Wikidata with a known light range, drawn as a circle as wide as the distance a ship can see its light from. Where coasts are dense with lights, the circles merge into bands of light. Click where circles overlap to see every lighthouse there.
Made for the #30DayMapChallenge, day 5: Senses: Sight.