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Lighthouses are beacons, but not all beacons are lighthouses. "Some definitions are not controversial. An aid to navigation is a structure placed on or near navigable water to provide visual guidance to mariners.

A beacon is an aid to navigation that is fixed in place (that is, not floating). A lighted beacon or light beacon is a beacon displaying a light, while an unlit beacon is called a day beacon.

Often, a lighted beacon is simply called a light." Not all day beacons are lighthouses, because beacons can be unlit. Lighthouses can be decommissioned, but if they were never lit, they were never real lighthouses.

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