Huaniao Island Lighthouse

Zhejiang · China

Huaniao Island Lighthouse, China
Photo: Maeshima hiroki, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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A British-built lighthouse from 1870 on Huaniao island in the Zhoushan archipelago, long a key marker on the approach to the Yangtze estuary. The island is also famed for bioluminescent tides that glow along its shores at night.

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