St. David's Island is one of the main islands of Bermuda, located in the far north of the territory. Among the notable features of the island is St. David's Lighthouse, overlooking the South Shore. It is a sturdy stone structure, 17m high to lantern, completed in 1879, which shows a fixed white light of the second order, of about 30 000 candlepower, at a total height of 63m above sea level. It was constructed to eliminate luring ships with other kinds of lights to come too close to the reefs and get their bottoms torn out. Local St. David's Islanders were notorious for plundering cargoes. When the lighthouse defeated their illegal activities, they became fishermen and excellent pilots.
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