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Not all lighthouses are striped but all lighthouses need to be visible during the daytime, as well as at night. The stripes on some lighthouses increase their visibility. Some lighthouses are black, because the angle from which they are usually seen by ships places them against the white clouds or bright blue sky, and the traditional white or striped lighthouse makes them hard to see against this background.
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The pattern is actually to help identify it from the sea, where distance makes the shape of the coastline difficult to see.
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Are lighthouses usually red and white striped?
Yes, they are mostly all red and white!
Why lighthouses spiralled?
Lighthouses are not spiraled, they are towers.
What are facts about lighthouses?
Egyptians were the people who invented lighthouses. Lighthouses guide sailors as navigators and as warning systems
How many lighthouses are in Connecticut?
There are 23 lighthouses in Connecticut.
How many lighthouses does Ohio have?
Ohio has 24 lighthouses.
How many lighthouses are in the coastal plain?
their are currently 1,983,475 lighthouses
What state lighthouses are from?
Nobody actually know when and where the lighthouses were built.
How do you use the word lighthouses?
There are lighthouses all along the coast.
When was Cape Romain Lighthouses created?
Cape Romain Lighthouses was created in 1857.
What happened to billingsgate island lighthouses?
Billingsgate Island lighthouses were eroded away.
Which state has no ocean but has has the most lighthouses of any state?
Michigan has the most lighthouses with 120.
How tall are n scale lighthouses?
1/n times the height of the real lighthouses.
