Troizinia-Methana, Greece
7th century BCE
Corfu, Greece
600 BCE
Noto, Italy
8th century BCE
Kritsa, Greece
400-300 BC
Syracuse, Italy
402-397 BCE
Gela, Italy
8th century BCE
Achaea, Greece
1300 BCE
Embonas, Greece
3000-1000 BCE
Corinth, Greece
2000 BCE
Poros, Greece
520 BCE
Arcadia, Greece
4th century BCE
Capo Colonna, Italy
480-440 BCE
Vai, Greece
700 BC
Augusta, Italy
728 BCE
Aidone, Italy
5th century BCE
San Giuseppe Jato, Italy
6th century BC
Lemnos, Greece
500 BCE
Lipari, Italy
4th century BCE
Argos-Mykines, Greece
4th century BCE
Elis, Greece
4th century BCE
Towering 52 meters above the sea, Bengtskär lighthouse is the tallest one in Scandinavia. The building started in in 1905 after the shipwreck of S/S Helsingfors and was completed in 1906. The lighthouse was designed by architect Florentin Granholm. On December a special petrol lantern, designed and built in Paris, was brought to Bengtskär and installed atop the tower.
German fleet bombarded Bengstkär in the First World War in 1914. Since the Gulf of Finland was heavily mined, it was not until 1919 that the surrounding seas were declared safe for shipping, that the light was lit again.
After the war the military value of Bengtskär increased as part of the defence system of independent Finland. In Second World War (1941) Soviet Union made a suprise attack to island. After a bloody battle, the small Finnish garrison emerged victorious. Intermittent repairs to the facility continued during the post-war period.