Episode 27 - Landsorts Fyr

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Hi everyone, I'm Emily.

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And I'm Vince.

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And this is the Lighthouse Lowdown.

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Oh.

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What?

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It's like when you take a sip of coffee and it's just like this slug of caramel comes

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up your straw.

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That sounds delicious.

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It's just.

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I love slugs of caramel.

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There shouldn't be anything solid in my liquid.

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It's a semi-solid.

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So it throws me off anytime I'm drinking and it's like a piece of ice comes in my mouth.

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I'm like, oh.

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Thank you Starbucks.

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Thank you for the caramel.

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For the caramel slugs.

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We've got caramel macchiatos in the studio today.

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So we recorded yesterday and we're doing back to back recordings.

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So we should be extra warm.

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This one posts first.

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We're doing a series of two international lighthouses.

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The first one is going to be this one.

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We're going to Sweden for this episode.

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And Vince and I will be going to Sweden in real life.

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When you hear this episode, I think we'll be going to that lighthouse that day.

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So my Instagram post will come out a little bit late so I can include my own pictures.

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So you can think of us in Sweden when you're listening to us.

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Why you're listening.

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Yeah.

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Because life is proven wrong by us being there.

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Honestly, it's because everything's in Swedish.

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Everything is in Swedish.

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And you just be like, oh, you Google translate and it works fine.

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No, it's not.

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They're not.

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It's not a straight translation?

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No.

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Well, it's just like, it's not a flawless.

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So it'll Google translate things that aren't supposed to be translated.

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It just translates things.

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In this episode, we have the term by fear.

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And I don't think I know what that means.

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Yeah.

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It translates.

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Google translates it to be lighthouse.

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It's like, it's that's absolutely not.

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It's like B.I. fear is lighthouse in Swedish.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Or something.

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Right.

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I'm just going to pronounce it like an American because I can't.

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We're going to get I can only do so much.

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I accept that.

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So logically, you would think that means to to like second lighthouse.

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But Google translates it to be lighthouse like BEE like a bumblebee lighthouse.

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Do I really trust that or do I just go with intuition and just be like, it's all it just

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means is second lighthouse.

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Anyway, so that's been the struggle of doing international lighthouses.

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Not just that it's hard to find information on them, but it's all in another language

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that Google does its best to translate, but you know, that's all they have to work with.

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Well, if anyone knows Swedish and is listening to our podcast, please enlighten us.

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Yeah.

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If you ever if you hear anything that's just straight out wrong, like even like years and

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like history and stuff, I don't like I'm just going to trust this jumble of broken English

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that Google's delivering to me.

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That's all I have.

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Find some Swedish resources.

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Get it all sorted.

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What about asking Chase while I looked up how to pronounce the letters in Swedish, you

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know, so it's like maybe I could walk myself through my own pronunciation of words.

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But and who is Chase for the listeners?

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Chase is my brother.

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He lives in Sweden.

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You didn't know.

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Yeah, we're visiting him when we're going to Sweden.

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So yeah, we're so we're visiting him in Stockholm for three days on our way to Spain.

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Spain for a friend's wedding.

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Yeah, give me a lot of fun.

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But yeah, well, I think we should do that.

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We should talk to him and ask after what we got wrong with our recording here.

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Yeah, we can cover it as a history buoy or something.

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Yeah, it's a little add on with the more you know.

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Yeah.

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You know, we'll have a whole segment on how wrong we are about stuff.

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Yeah.

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Well, that, you know, we could fill a couple hours.

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So we're what about a month?

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No.

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Yeah, three weeks.

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Three.

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About three weeks.

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We'll be heading over there.

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Oh, gives me anxiety.

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Cool.

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See which one of us is an avid traveler.

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The other one's just like, it'll be good.

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We'll have a good time.

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Yeah, it'll be there.

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So I feel a little bit better.

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I just went on a little traveling escapade recently, and I definitely just need some

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familiar.

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You had some good stories from that one, at least.

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I did.

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Yeah, it was a good time.

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Stories not for the podcast, maybe for a different podcast.

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Yeah, no podcast.

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All right.

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For listeners, it's a bachelorette trip.

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Yeah, we don't.

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Different context.

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No Lighthouses were involved.

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Unfortunately.

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So today I'm going to start with the history buoy.

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I won't give you the name yet.

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Okay.

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So since we're going to Sweden, we want to talk about for the history buoy, the history

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of Lighthouses in Sweden.

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Okay.

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So you can get an idea of what that looks like for our Lighthouse that we're covering

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today.

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The interesting thing is that our next episode is about Japan, and you see that their history

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starts way later than Lighthouses first came to be in the world.

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It was like middle 1800s that Japan actually started building Lighthouses.

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So that's insane considering even the US, which is a very young country, especially

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compared to Japan, has Lighthouses that started over a hundred years before they got around

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to it.

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So it's interesting that in Sweden, talking about the history of Lighthouses there is

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the same as talking about the history of Lighthouses of all time.

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One of the places where the earliest Lighthouses are seen.

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And so you can just talk about the history of Lighthouses in general, and it applies

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to Sweden.

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Nice.

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Kind of crazy.

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I started, I did talk about this in our history of Lighthouses episode, how Lighthouses came

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to be.

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And it's the same for Sweden is that the beginning was just bonfires on hilltops and elevating

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the fire obviously improves visibility.

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And so eventually fires were placed on platforms, which is how Lighthouses came to be.

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What were they called?

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Do you know before it was a Lighthouse?

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Because a Lighthouse obviously is a conjunction of a light being present at someone lives

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at this place.

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Seamark.

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Seamark.

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That's cool.

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There's a mention of it.

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Well, the first Lighthouse in Sweden was lit in 1561.

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The oldest known Seamark is the Falsterbo.

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That's crazy.

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I can't...Falsterbo Seamark from 1260s.

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All right.

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I was going to say about the 1500s.

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I can't name any other single historical event that I know happened in the 1500s.

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Oh, really?

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I don't know of any offhand.

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I better could look some up.

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Or 1600s or 1400s.

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Yeah.

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Let alone 1200s.

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I'm pretty sure this was like before, was this before Roman time?

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I have no idea.

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No, that can't be possible.

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I knew this in middle school maybe, but you know.

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What happened?

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It's been a couple of years.

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Here we are.

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1560s.

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Okay.

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The complete Geneva Bible is published.

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Not familiar.

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Me either.

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The first tulip bulb is brought from Constantinople.

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Constantinople.

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None of these are recognizable.

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Tulips.

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All right.

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No, I don't want that to be the only thing.

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The Mongols invade and occupy King Hai.

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Wait, wait.

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I say moguls.

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Oh, the great age of piracy in the Caribbean starts around this time.

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That's what we want to know.

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Running champagne.

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We need to stay on brand.

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That's what we're going to say.

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Pirates.

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Pirates started.

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We did talk.

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Actually, we did talk about that because we talked about.

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I didn't connect those years though.

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Hog Island White House.

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That seems like a lot longer ago to me.

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1500s.

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Thank you for that.

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You're welcome.

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Originally, firewood was being used for these little hillside bonfires.

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And in the 1500s, it changed to Apna Col Ferrar, which translates to open coal lights, which

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just means that the firewood was replaced with coal in braziers on platforms.

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Okay.

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Like a brass dish container.

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Brazier.

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Brazier.

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Anyway, in 1560, King Frederick II of Denmark ordered that three brazier type lighthouses

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would be built, the first and oldest in Sweden being the Kålen Lighthouse, which still is

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there today.

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How's that spelled?

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K-U-L-L-E-N.

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Okay.

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It's not like Twilight.

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Not Cologne.

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Oh, no.

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I was going a very different direction with mine.

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Any Twilight fans out there?

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I'm not familiar with that.

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What am I missing?

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Twilight?

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The Kålens.

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Is it a name?

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It's the last name of the vampire family.

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Yeah, I didn't know that.

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Moving on.

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It's spelled differently, which is why I was excited that you asked.

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Anyway, 1636, a special type of light became common in Sweden called Vipfja.

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I love the pronunciations.

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I'm trying, but it almost makes it worse that I'm trying and failing.

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You got this.

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Just think of Ajo.

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Why you keep bringing that up?

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It's painful.

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So in this type of light, Kåls were placed in a metal basket, was on a long stick.

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Cool.

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And it kind of operated like a light switch, and then it would be raised.

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You'd lower the basket at one end of the stick to fill it with Kål, and then you would pull

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down on the other end of the stick to lift the Kåls into the air.

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A teeter totter.

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Yes, it's like that.

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And so that, it was a raised, burning Kåls so that you could see them.

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Hang on, I got a picture.

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Here's what the open Kål looked like.

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Blow that up.

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All right.

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So it's a rock platform with staircase leading to the top of the rocks and a handrail.

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They're very ahead of their time.

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I don't know what the center is.

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I assume it's like a table of material, like firewood, Kål.

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It's open up here.

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Kål goes in here, and this is all just like aeration or something.

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I thought the Kål was in the lantern on the right.

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This?

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Yeah.

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No, that's just probably for so they can see when they're going up the stairs.

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Ocean came in and was like, hey.

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I don't know.

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No, this is where the fire is.

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You're certain?

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I'm positive.

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Well, why do they have a lantern?

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So they can see that going up the stairs.

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I don't feel like that's a concern of the 1500s.

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Why not?

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I don't know.

266
00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:32,800
You don't think they cared about safety?

267
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It didn't get dark.

268
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It wasn't ever dark there.

269
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Their stairs were much better than modern stairs.

270
00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:42,360
All right, well, I learned something new.

271
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So big stones make up this tower, which looks about 15 feet tall, 20 feet tall.

272
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Yeah, maybe.

273
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With some coal burning apparatus atop of it.

274
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And you can kind of see from this picture how the remnants, it's the beginning of lighthouses.

275
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If you just put a dome up here, then it just looks like a lighthouse.

276
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Yeah, all I need is glass.

277
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All right, here's the...

278
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Here.

279
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That is cool.

280
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So it's like a little teeter totter.

281
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I am seeing a question.

282
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How do they...

283
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So there's like a rope coming down from the basket so they can pull it down.

284
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They got a counterweight on the bottom side.

285
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They probably lift that off.

286
00:12:22,680 --> 00:12:27,080
Man, that's got to be well balanced for it to come down and refilled to go back up.

287
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This is just a replica.

288
00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:31,680
So this is somewhere in Sweden where you can just...

289
00:12:31,680 --> 00:12:33,800
Well, they did not get lazy with the replica.

290
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Assuming that this is what it looked like in the olden days.

291
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1500s, yeah.

292
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How do they find a stick that long?

293
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Tall trees, I guess.

294
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This is impressive.

295
00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:49,360
So yeah, that's what it looks like.

296
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Those were common at the same time that they had open coal lights and then eventually they'd

297
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get phased out.

298
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Just after these came coal lighthouses in braziers with polished metal plates for reflection.

299
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So it was like one of the earliest cases of using a flame's reflection to enhance the

300
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light.

301
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At the end of the 1700s, there were still only about 10 lighthouses in Sweden.

302
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So between mid 1500s and the end of the 1700s, we still only had made about 10 lighthouses.

303
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So it wasn't like they were booming, but they were putting them where it was necessary for

304
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trade and ports.

305
00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:35,660
At the end of the century, a Swedish engineer invented rotating parabolic reflectors with

306
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clockwork and was the first of its kind installed at a Swedish lighthouse, which was pretty

307
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common.

308
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Look at them.

309
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Yeah, that's probably the bare bones of starting clockwork in lighthouses for flashing patterns

310
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and stuff.

311
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So pretty cool.

312
00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:53,520
I can't imagine inventing that.

313
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What has to be going on in your brain that you're like, I just got to figure a way to

314
00:13:57,400 --> 00:13:59,320
make this rotate.

315
00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:03,760
Well even if you got the idea from something, it comes to you, right?

316
00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:05,360
Okay, you got the idea.

317
00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:12,800
Now between the idea and making it work reliably, like a physical thing, that's really impressive.

318
00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:19,400
I always found it like hard to imagine that people were hired as inventors.

319
00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:25,320
They were meant to do research and their inventions came out as a result of all that research.

320
00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:26,320
Yeah.

321
00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:27,320
Yeah.

322
00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:31,720
I was just like, how do you be employed as a researcher, as an inventor?

323
00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:38,020
And at what point is it no longer, like today, do we still have people who just research

324
00:14:38,020 --> 00:14:39,560
and try to invent stuff?

325
00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:40,560
I'm sure they do.

326
00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:41,560
I don't know.

327
00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:42,560
I don't know.

328
00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:48,800
Anyway, moving on to the next century, the 1800s, lighthouses in Sweden.

329
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Soared past 400, so obviously the 1800s was a time of growth for Sweden when it comes

330
00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:58,840
to lighthouses.

331
00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:02,800
And the Fränel Lens were introduced to Sweden in the 1840s, but it took a while for them

332
00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:08,640
to be applied to the lighthouses that they had just because it was definitely expensive.

333
00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:14,800
It was expensive, but worth it, which is how the Fränel Lens spread so easily to other

334
00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:15,800
lighthouses.

335
00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:16,800
Okay.

336
00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:19,240
Yeah, worth the cost.

337
00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:23,680
The 1900s in Sweden brought along electrification, but it was really slow.

338
00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:29,320
For some reason in Sweden, they just took a long time to electrify lighthouses.

339
00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:33,000
They probably just had their system and weren't going to worry about it too much.

340
00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:35,320
And this was also true for automation.

341
00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:40,600
And in the 1990s, so really not that long ago, there were still 90 lighthouses that

342
00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:42,800
were still being tended to by keepers.

343
00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:43,800
No way.

344
00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:44,800
Yeah.

345
00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:46,800
But it was like...

346
00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:47,800
1850s?

347
00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:48,800
No, no, 1950s.

348
00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:54,520
Yeah, about 1950s and 60s.

349
00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:56,800
So they took a long time to still do that.

350
00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:58,480
That is nuts.

351
00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:00,240
That's the highest we've heard of anywhere.

352
00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:02,680
I wonder why.

353
00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:05,480
So I'm sure today they're all automated because everything's wireless.

354
00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:06,480
I think all of them are.

355
00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:07,480
But the 90s...

356
00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:08,480
That's really cool.

357
00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:09,480
The 90s, they still had keepers.

358
00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:10,480
I don't know.

359
00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:11,480
It sounds crazy.

360
00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:12,480
Cool.

361
00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:14,840
So that's the history of lighthouses in Sweden.

362
00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:17,200
Are we going to see a map of Sweden?

363
00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:18,340
I don't have one.

364
00:16:18,340 --> 00:16:19,340
Would you mind looking one up?

365
00:16:19,340 --> 00:16:20,340
Is that going to throw you off?

366
00:16:20,340 --> 00:16:22,080
Because I would like to learn some more.

367
00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:25,680
I know we're going to Stockholm and Stockholm...

368
00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:28,600
We're not going to Sweden other than Stockholm.

369
00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:34,400
But it's an archipelago, as I've been told, a series of islands.

370
00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:38,000
So obviously waterfronts are many there.

371
00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:39,000
Yeah.

372
00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:40,000
But not that many lighthouses.

373
00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:41,000
I don't know my geography.

374
00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:46,680
Well, I think to some point, if you have too many lighthouses in one area, they would actually

375
00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:52,960
be harder to navigate than if you had key points to either stay towards or to stay away

376
00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:53,960
from.

377
00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:54,960
Yeah.

378
00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:55,960
So here's Stockholm.

379
00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:56,960
It's a little islands.

380
00:16:56,960 --> 00:16:57,960
Yeah.

381
00:16:57,960 --> 00:16:58,960
Lots of water traffic.

382
00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:01,120
So can you zoom out and show Sweden?

383
00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:04,200
I think Stockholm is actually South Sweden.

384
00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:05,200
See how wrong I am.

385
00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:06,200
Kind of.

386
00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:07,200
It's kind of South.

387
00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:10,220
So it's on the East Coast and the Baltic Sea.

388
00:17:10,220 --> 00:17:12,600
So the lighthouses are likely...

389
00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:17,080
Well, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, those are Oslo...

390
00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:18,840
No, Oslo is Norway.

391
00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:20,000
Those are all Sweden though.

392
00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:28,640
Gothenburg, Copenhagen, and then up the entire inlet, which is the Gulf of Bothnia?

393
00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:29,640
Bothnia?

394
00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:30,640
Mm-hmm.

395
00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:33,400
It's like Bosnia with a Lisp.

396
00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:34,400
Cool.

397
00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:35,400
Thanks.

398
00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:37,280
I wonder where the lighthouses are mostly.

399
00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:38,280
Near the cities or...

400
00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:44,400
Because near Stockholm, which obviously we'll talk about, I think, that's our trip.

401
00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:45,400
There's not many, right?

402
00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:46,720
We just talked about the archipelago.

403
00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:47,720
No.

404
00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:48,720
Yeah.

405
00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:51,120
I really just happened upon this one because it was...

406
00:17:51,120 --> 00:17:55,320
There's a couple of lighthouses, but they're modern.

407
00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:56,320
They're more like...

408
00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:57,320
Booth.

409
00:17:57,320 --> 00:17:58,320
There's towers.

410
00:17:58,320 --> 00:17:59,320
They're more like...

411
00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:00,320
Metal towers.

412
00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:02,720
Like seaport lights and not like lighthouses.

413
00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:03,960
Okay.

414
00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:06,640
But this one has a lot of history that we're covering today.

415
00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:10,280
And it's taking us to this little island.

416
00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:11,280
Whoa.

417
00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:12,280
Okay.

418
00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:17,560
So it is the southernmost island in the Stockholm archipelago.

419
00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:18,560
Ninshammungen.

420
00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:19,560
Nyn...

421
00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:20,560
Nynasam.

422
00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:23,560
Nynasam, I think it is.

423
00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:24,560
Nynasam.

424
00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:25,560
Nynasam.

425
00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:31,240
You know, my family was from Sweden and I really don't know any Swedish.

426
00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:32,240
Yeah.

427
00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:33,240
It's hard.

428
00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:34,240
It's not...

429
00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:39,320
I mean, there's obviously harder languages to learn because at least some of the sounds

430
00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:42,080
in their alphabet are similar to how we would.

431
00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:48,720
But there's also three more vowels that we don't have in the English language.

432
00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:55,120
And I can't remember which vowel it is, but it doesn't sound the same in English.

433
00:18:55,120 --> 00:18:58,600
It's hard to learn because we don't have that sound in the English alphabet.

434
00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:01,200
I wonder if it's like German at all.

435
00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:02,600
Like that A right there.

436
00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:03,600
Yeah.

437
00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:04,600
That's an A umlaut.

438
00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:06,200
That's the mark.

439
00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:08,640
So it's again, it's a pronunciation difference.

440
00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:10,680
I don't know.

441
00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:11,680
Yeah.

442
00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:12,680
There was some...

443
00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:16,880
I can't remember which vowel it was, but it was like, the closest thing we can give to

444
00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:18,320
you for an example is...

445
00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:21,520
And I was just like, we can't even...

446
00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:25,400
You can't even try to understand it just by reading.

447
00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:28,200
You have to hear someone say it to understand.

448
00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:29,200
Yeah.

449
00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:34,840
Like there's, I'm going to totally guess, Jordbro versus Søretorn.

450
00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:39,600
So the U versus O sound, depending on...

451
00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:41,800
At least in German, that's how it would work.

452
00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:42,800
Yeah.

453
00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:43,800
So I don't know.

454
00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:44,800
We'll learn something.

455
00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:45,800
I don't know.

456
00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:48,080
Hopefully we can tell you more from an educated perspective.

457
00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:50,840
Yeah, we're doing our best.

458
00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:55,040
So we are going to Landsort, the island of...

459
00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:57,400
Hang on.

460
00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:00,280
Is Landsort not the island?

461
00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:03,480
Landsort is the town, I think.

462
00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:07,360
And the island is called Oya or maybe it's...

463
00:20:07,360 --> 00:20:09,560
What's the O?

464
00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:10,560
Uumlau.

465
00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:11,560
U.

466
00:20:11,560 --> 00:20:12,560
Uya.

467
00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:13,560
What?

468
00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:14,560
U.

469
00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:15,560
Uya.

470
00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:16,560
Iii.

471
00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:25,000
Someone who speaks German is going to be like, bro, you're just making stuff up at this

472
00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:26,000
point.

473
00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:27,000
Yeah, I know.

474
00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:28,000
I'm doing my best.

475
00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:29,000
U.

476
00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:30,000
U.

477
00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:31,000
U.

478
00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:32,000
Uya.

479
00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:33,000
Wow.

480
00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:36,000
The island is...

481
00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:38,120
Can you show me the name of the island?

482
00:20:38,120 --> 00:20:43,000
Can you zoom in or something?

483
00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:44,400
That way I can rip a guess away.

484
00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:46,400
You don't have to feel so bad.

485
00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:47,400
Uya.

486
00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:52,520
It's probably pronounced like ja or something like that.

487
00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:53,520
No, no.

488
00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:54,520
The J is ya.

489
00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:55,520
Right.

490
00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:57,120
The J is behind an Oumlau.

491
00:20:57,120 --> 00:20:59,160
No, I read the pronunciation rules.

492
00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:00,800
Okay, so it's ja?

493
00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:01,800
It's not.

494
00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:02,800
It's ya.

495
00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:03,800
Uya.

496
00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:09,320
I really hope I'm right.

497
00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:12,280
Landsorts, Gastham and Stuga.

498
00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:16,360
I'm sounding German now.

499
00:21:16,360 --> 00:21:19,360
Landsorts, fire, fear.

500
00:21:19,360 --> 00:21:22,400
Fear, yeah.

501
00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:30,160
When a Swedish person pronounces it, the R isn't really...

502
00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:31,160
It's not really accentuated.

503
00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:32,160
It's not an emphasis.

504
00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:35,160
R is where you go fear.

505
00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:37,160
R is not really there as much.

506
00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:39,160
So I sound like a French person.

507
00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:40,160
Fear.

508
00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:41,160
Oh.

509
00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:42,160
That's how it works.

510
00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:43,160
So worldly and educated.

511
00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:44,160
Okay.

512
00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:50,000
So other than oh yeah, it's uya if it was...

513
00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,000
If it's what I'm totally guessing.

514
00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:53,000
U.

515
00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:54,480
It's two different sounds.

516
00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:56,040
I can't get that sound.

517
00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:57,040
U.

518
00:21:57,040 --> 00:21:58,040
U.

519
00:21:58,040 --> 00:21:59,040
U.

520
00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:03,120
I feel bad for the listeners at this point.

521
00:22:03,120 --> 00:22:05,520
So we're going there if you're looking on the screen.

522
00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:06,520
Yes.

523
00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:07,520
Okay.

524
00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:13,200
If you look at a map of Sweden, we're going to the, like I said, the most, the southernmost

525
00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:16,520
island in Stockholm archipelago.

526
00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:17,520
O, ja.

527
00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:18,520
Oumlau.

528
00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:19,520
Oumlaut.

529
00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:20,520
Oumlaut.

530
00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:23,520
Which I think means out loud.

531
00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:24,520
What?

532
00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:27,520
I don't know.

533
00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:28,520
I don't know.

534
00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:30,800
Confidence is waning.

535
00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:37,520
And at the very bottom of this little island, it's very, it's three, about three miles long

536
00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:38,760
and half a mile wide.

537
00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:41,080
So it's a walking island.

538
00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:42,300
Cars are not there.

539
00:22:42,300 --> 00:22:45,000
So you have to either rent bikes or walk.

540
00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:46,000
Wow.

541
00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:51,320
And the very southernmost tip of this island, not including this tiny, teeny tiny little

542
00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:54,880
piece of land sticking off is Landsortsfjär.

543
00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:55,880
Okay.

544
00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:56,880
Sorry.

545
00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:57,880
Lansorts.

546
00:22:57,880 --> 00:22:58,880
Lansortsfjär.

547
00:22:58,880 --> 00:22:59,880
We're not American.

548
00:22:59,880 --> 00:23:00,880
Lansortsfjär.

549
00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:05,760
And that is the town of Lansorts Lighthouse.

550
00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:08,000
So Lansorts is the town.

551
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:09,000
Lansorts ownership.

552
00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:10,000
Lansortsfjär.

553
00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:11,000
Okay.

554
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:12,000
Yeah.

555
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:13,640
Our lighthouse that we're looking at today, I'll show you a picture.

556
00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:15,480
It's very unique shape.

557
00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:22,600
It's the most of the lighthouse is perfectly cylindrical and white.

558
00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:26,960
And then at the top, they added a portion that sharply tapers.

559
00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:31,480
It's like a cone shape and it's bright red and ends at a black lantern room.

560
00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:32,480
So cool.

561
00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:37,160
It used to be this white cylinder with the black lantern room just sitting on the flat

562
00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:38,160
surface.

563
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:40,120
And then they added the tapered point.

564
00:23:40,120 --> 00:23:45,080
I don't know if I wrote notes about why that is or if it was just to lift it a little bit,

565
00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:47,920
but other than that, I don't know why they would do it.

566
00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:50,760
But yeah, it makes it a very unique looking lighthouse.

567
00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:56,480
It's 83 feet tall and currently has a third order lens with a light characteristic of

568
00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:59,320
FL.

569
00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:00,320
This is a special one.

570
00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:01,320
Flash.

571
00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:02,320
Yeah.

572
00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:03,320
Flashing.

573
00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:04,640
In parentheses, one plus four.

574
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:09,520
And I did read that they are, it's like an exciting thing to have.

575
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:12,740
It's like not a normal flashing pattern to have.

576
00:24:12,740 --> 00:24:14,240
And I'll tell you about it in a second.

577
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:19,000
One plus four W, 60 seconds, 22 nautical mile.

578
00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:26,520
The one plus four basically says it's a flashing pattern of like you have one flash and then

579
00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:31,080
there's an eclipse and then four fast flashes and then the eclipse.

580
00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:32,080
Rapid fire.

581
00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:33,080
Yeah.

582
00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:38,200
So the way that this one is, it's like a 60 second period, but you have one second quick

583
00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:43,280
flash and then you have, I think two seconds of darkness and then four quick flashes.

584
00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:45,560
And then the rest of that minute are darkness.

585
00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:46,560
Oh weird.

586
00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:48,360
So it's very intermittent.

587
00:24:48,360 --> 00:24:49,360
Yeah.

588
00:24:49,360 --> 00:24:50,360
Yeah.

589
00:24:50,360 --> 00:24:52,000
And it's white.

590
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:56,040
And something we'll talk about later, which I already kind of mentioned is the second

591
00:24:56,040 --> 00:25:01,240
light, which has its own flash pattern, but is also in the lighthouse.

592
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:10,280
And its characteristic is occulting white, red, green for 10 seconds and 14 nautical

593
00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:11,280
miles.

594
00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:15,240
And I had to work hard to figure out what this looks like.

595
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:19,400
And I'll show you a picture when I start to talk more about it, but it's very cool.

596
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:21,280
It's not something I've ever seen before.

597
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:24,360
So there's two lights by like we talked about.

598
00:25:24,360 --> 00:25:25,360
Yeah.

599
00:25:25,360 --> 00:25:27,080
The by fear that that's where this came from is.

600
00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:28,080
Yeah.

601
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:31,200
It's the first time I've heard of anything about it.

602
00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:32,200
But it's a thing.

603
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:33,200
Let's learn more.

604
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:35,880
Let's dive into the history of this lighthouse.

605
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:39,240
1651, a wooden lighthouse tower was built.

606
00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:42,240
The first to be built on Swedish land by Swedish hands.

607
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:46,320
So there were a couple of lighthouses before this one, but they were built by the Danish,

608
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:48,360
I want to say.

609
00:25:48,360 --> 00:25:50,400
And so this is the first one to be built by Swedish.

610
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:54,120
I'm going to say engineers, but it's so long ago.

611
00:25:54,120 --> 00:25:55,120
I don't know.

612
00:25:55,120 --> 00:25:56,120
Yeah.

613
00:25:56,120 --> 00:25:57,120
Yeah.

614
00:25:57,120 --> 00:25:58,120
Carpenters.

615
00:25:58,120 --> 00:25:59,120
Constructors.

616
00:25:59,120 --> 00:26:00,120
Carpenters.

617
00:26:00,120 --> 00:26:01,120
Stone masons.

618
00:26:01,120 --> 00:26:02,120
Yeah.

619
00:26:02,120 --> 00:26:04,520
Swedish construction people.

620
00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:05,520
Swedish plumbers, clearly.

621
00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:08,280
I don't know how things worked back then.

622
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:09,960
The sheet metal workers went out there.

623
00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:14,480
It was originally lit with tallow candles and copper.

624
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,800
So a little bit of a reflection thing going on.

625
00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:21,000
And they couldn't decide on ownership after it was built.

626
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:24,720
There was two guys who were involved in making it and they couldn't decide who was going

627
00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:26,760
to have ownership over it.

628
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:27,760
They didn't decide before they built it.

629
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:28,760
Yeah.

630
00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:31,920
So it was abandoned a year later, which is so funny that they're like...

631
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:32,920
No one can have it.

632
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:33,920
Yeah.

633
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:34,920
Like, well, we just fine.

634
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:36,560
Like we just leave it then.

635
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:37,560
Nobody gets it.

636
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:38,560
What?

637
00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:39,560
Crazy.

638
00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:42,280
Here, let me go ahead and pull up a picture as you can see.

639
00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:43,280
Lomsorsfjär.

640
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:44,280
Fjär.

641
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:45,280
Fjär.

642
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:46,280
Fjär.

643
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:50,560
Pretty little town with no roads.

644
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:51,560
Yep.

645
00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:54,480
There is a walking path from top to bottom.

646
00:26:54,480 --> 00:27:01,000
It veers off in a couple of places for you to see the fun things about this island and

647
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:02,000
Lomsors.

648
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:03,800
But we're going to talk about that later.

649
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:04,800
Pretty image.

650
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:08,840
It looks sturdy in this image.

651
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:11,680
It's very perfectly up and down.

652
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:12,680
Yeah.

653
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:15,160
There's no taper on that white main body.

654
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:20,560
I think that's maybe why it looks so resilient in this picture is just because the sides

655
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:24,600
are perfectly straight of this lighthouse, which is not something we see.

656
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:26,400
It's normally like a conical lighthouse.

657
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:30,560
Although I would guess it would actually be easier to build a straight wall.

658
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:31,560
Yeah.

659
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:32,560
Than a tapered wall.

660
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:34,120
Especially as far back as we're talking about.

661
00:27:34,120 --> 00:27:36,440
This wooden lighthouse tower is not the same one that we have today.

662
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:37,440
Right.

663
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:38,440
The one that I talked about.

664
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,200
But I guess I'll go on.

665
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:47,540
And so it was another 15 years before Johan van der Hagen got a royal charter to build

666
00:27:47,540 --> 00:27:53,520
a new lighthouse from wood, tallow candles, and some kind of mirror reflection thing.

667
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:55,440
Johan van der Hagen.

668
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:56,880
Johan van der.

669
00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:57,880
Van der.

670
00:27:57,880 --> 00:27:58,880
Hagen.

671
00:27:58,880 --> 00:27:59,880
Van der Hagen.

672
00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:00,880
Hagen.

673
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:01,880
Van der Hagen.

674
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:03,760
I don't know.

675
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:06,800
This one burnt down in 1686.

676
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:12,360
And so it was like another 17 years that that lasted before it was burned down.

677
00:28:12,360 --> 00:28:15,120
And it couldn't find what burnt down the lighthouse.

678
00:28:15,120 --> 00:28:18,720
But considering we were still using open flame in the lighthouse.

679
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:19,720
That might be the source.

680
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:20,720
That's wood.

681
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:23,720
Like maybe that's what it was.

682
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:24,720
Oops.

683
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:25,720
17 years ain't bad then.

684
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:26,720
Yeah.

685
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:27,720
Yeah.

686
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:30,720
For a wood structure.

687
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:32,600
17 years of not dropping the ball.

688
00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:37,680
For a wood structure that has an open flame in it at all times, sometimes unsupervised,

689
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:38,680
pretty good.

690
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:39,680
17 years.

691
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:44,600
So a year later, a contract is signed to Margareta van der Hagen.

692
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:51,200
And what happened is that it was signed to her husband, Johan.

693
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:52,200
Johan.

694
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:54,800
And he was dead at this point.

695
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,000
And so she just took it upon herself to.

696
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:58,000
How did he die?

697
00:28:58,000 --> 00:28:59,000
I don't know.

698
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:00,600
I think probably natural causes.

699
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:01,600
Like a fire?

700
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:02,600
Yeah, maybe.

701
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:03,600
Sorry.

702
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:04,600
This.

703
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:05,600
Johan's past.

704
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:06,600
Yeah.

705
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:12,200
The contract was for a new stone tower in the same place and was to be a coal lighthouse.

706
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:17,200
Because we were talking about at this time, the crown was starting to convert their little

707
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:19,920
lighthouses into coal lighthouses instead of.

708
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:20,920
The crown of Sweden.

709
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:21,920
The crown.

710
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:22,920
The king and our queen.

711
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:24,400
Oh, I didn't look this up.

712
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,880
I saw it just before I closed my notes and I just threw it in here.

713
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:31,800
But in 1719, a Russian pillage happened.

714
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:33,040
That sounds bad.

715
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:34,360
And this is all translated.

716
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:38,080
So I'm not sure if that's the exact translation that it's supposed to be.

717
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:39,960
But they attempted to burn down the lighthouse.

718
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:46,200
But because the walls are a meter thick and stone, it survived and still stands.

719
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:47,200
Hold on.

720
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:49,680
The walls are six feet thick?

721
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:50,680
Is that a meter?

722
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:51,680
A meter is three feet, I think.

723
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:52,680
Oh my gosh.

724
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:53,680
A yard is three feet.

725
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:54,680
So a meter is somewhere.

726
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:55,680
No, I think a meter is six feet.

727
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:57,480
I've got to put me wrong.

728
00:29:57,480 --> 00:29:58,760
You're not a meter tall.

729
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:00,880
Well, like 1.2 meters tall.

730
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:01,880
3.2, 3.28 feet.

731
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:02,880
I was just totally wrong.

732
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:03,880
I'm sorry, everyone.

733
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:04,880
I should know better.

734
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:05,880
Aren't you an engineer?

735
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:06,880
Well.

736
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:07,880
You're an American engineer.

737
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:08,880
I'm an engineer in training.

738
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:09,880
Yeah, that's embarrassing.

739
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:10,880
We worked with, it's Imperial, right?

740
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:11,880
Yeah, Imperial units.

741
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:12,880
It's a metric.

742
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:13,880
Anyways, I should know that.

743
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:14,880
But wow, still three feet.

744
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:15,880
That's half of what I was thinking.

745
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:16,880
I wish I had a little bit of a better understanding of what it was.

746
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:17,880
I'm sorry.

747
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:18,880
I'm sorry.

748
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:19,880
I'm sorry.

749
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:20,880
I'm sorry.

750
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:21,880
I'm sorry.

751
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:22,880
I'm sorry.

752
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:23,880
I'm sorry.

753
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:24,880
I'm sorry.

754
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:25,880
I'm sorry.

755
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:31,960
I wish I had had time to look up more about what this Russian pillage was and if it was

756
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:34,560
like a war we were having or something.

757
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:36,960
But that's all I got.

758
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:45,200
In 1839, so for like 200 years, nothing was really going on at this lighthouse besides

759
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:48,040
the Russian attempt at burning it down.

760
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:50,960
Which is no small event to the people who were there.

761
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:51,960
Yeah.

762
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:58,520
It's crazy because that isn't listed in Lonsort's webpage of history information.

763
00:30:58,520 --> 00:30:59,520
What?

764
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:00,800
Is this attempt to burn it down.

765
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:05,600
I saw it in just some other, what's it called?

766
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:06,600
Here, let me see.

767
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:09,000
From the lighthouse's perspective, it's like.

768
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,000
Atlas Obscura.

769
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:12,000
Someone tried to burn it down.

770
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:13,000
I've definitely used that before.

771
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:14,000
I don't know if it's credible.

772
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:15,000
Idiots.

773
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:16,000
But that is where I went.

774
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:17,000
Okay, the Atlas Obscura.

775
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:20,800
So in 1839, the crown takes control of the lighthouse.

776
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:27,640
So originally, Margareta was given, she was allowed to tax ships that came by using the

777
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:29,920
lighthouse and keep all of the money.

778
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:31,200
She was balling out of control.

779
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:32,200
Yeah.

780
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:35,840
So it was after about, I think it was four years, maybe five years, the crown started

781
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:38,640
taking a third of that.

782
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,000
But it was still like a pretty good amount of money.

783
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:42,740
And she had a place to live for free.

784
00:31:42,740 --> 00:31:43,740
So it was just.

785
00:31:43,740 --> 00:31:44,740
Taxes.

786
00:31:44,740 --> 00:31:45,740
It was wonderful.

787
00:31:45,740 --> 00:31:46,740
Taxes.

788
00:31:46,740 --> 00:31:47,740
Taxes.

789
00:31:47,740 --> 00:31:48,740
So did she, thank you.

790
00:31:48,740 --> 00:31:50,080
Did she live in the tower?

791
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:53,600
Is there a residence within the tower or is there a separate keeper's house?

792
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:54,600
I don't know.

793
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:56,600
I don't see, I don't really see one here.

794
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:59,200
And it was never mentioned if there was a keeper's house.

795
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:00,200
But I'm also reading.

796
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:01,400
There could be room in there.

797
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:02,400
There could be.

798
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,880
Well, you can set up tours.

799
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:09,800
It's turning into a pain in the butt to try and do it from the US.

800
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:13,400
So Chase is going to get a text here pretty soon that says, please call this number.

801
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:14,400
All right.

802
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:15,400
So taxes.

803
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,360
But yeah, I don't know for certain.

804
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:18,360
They're taking a third.

805
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:19,360
Yeah.

806
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:23,760
So eventually, I mean, I don't know about how the ownership transferred.

807
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:27,240
Obviously, this was over 100 years later.

808
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:28,840
And so Margaret is not there anymore.

809
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:30,820
So maybe her kids had it or something.

810
00:32:30,820 --> 00:32:33,800
But eventually, the Crown takes control of the lighthouse again.

811
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:35,880
So they have ownership over it.

812
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:39,160
And a year later, it was renovated or rebuilt.

813
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:42,760
I couldn't, I found sources for both, but.

814
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:43,760
Okay.

815
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:44,760
Translate.

816
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:45,760
I don't know.

817
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:46,760
Kind of the same thing.

818
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:47,760
Yeah.

819
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:50,520
It's more sad when it's rebuilt because it's like, oh, man.

820
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:52,520
Yeah, take away some of the shine.

821
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:53,520
Yeah.

822
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:54,520
Some of the age.

823
00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:55,520
So we'll say it was renovated.

824
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:59,240
And it was given modern oil lanterns and a parabolic reflector system.

825
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,280
So we're updating this lighthouse.

826
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:03,280
Roughly what year?

827
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:04,280
1840.

828
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:05,280
Okay.

829
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:06,720
So I'm not, I don't know.

830
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:10,360
This is about when they were doing phrenolenses, right?

831
00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:11,360
Yeah.

832
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:12,520
Yeah, about in that timeframe.

833
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:13,520
Yeah.

834
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:16,960
So it took another 30 years after that before they brought in a phrenolense.

835
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:21,840
So I'm not sure what the stopper was because at this point there weren't that many lighthouses

836
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:22,840
going on.

837
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:27,160
And this one's one of the oldest and in the southernmost part of Sweden, you'd think,

838
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:31,200
or Stockholm, you'd think you care about it having a bright light.

839
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:32,200
I don't know.

840
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:34,000
I wonder where the shipping lanes are.

841
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:39,560
If these are people only coming to this island or if they're using this as a, once you find

842
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:44,640
this lighthouse, then it takes you up the coast to Stockholm via the shipping lane.

843
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:45,640
You know what I mean?

844
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,040
So from time, this was more of an entryway.

845
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:51,440
One goes up to the left into all of that.

846
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:55,240
No, this is a property line.

847
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:57,240
Oh, a border.

848
00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:58,240
Oh, excuse me.

849
00:33:58,240 --> 00:33:59,240
Oh yeah, I saw that before.

850
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:00,240
It's a county border.

851
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:03,920
Either way, it's the leading edge of land out there.

852
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:05,280
You would not want to run into it.

853
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:06,720
So that makes sense.

854
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:12,760
And at that time it was like a defensive position as well.

855
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:15,560
And I'll touch briefly on how that affects the light.

856
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:17,560
Yeah, the island.

857
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:24,080
But in 1870, the top part of the stone tower is removed and replaced with this red conical

858
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:25,080
metal top.

859
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:27,200
Oh, they actually shortened it.

860
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:30,560
I think it just meant that they just took off the top layer.

861
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:34,080
Yeah, they just built into it.

862
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:38,920
And they also converted it to a tower with clockwork and a frontal lens.

863
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:41,640
So we've officially modernized.

864
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:46,280
It was a second order lens, 50 seconds of white, 2 and 1 half seconds of an eclipse,

865
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:50,160
and then 5 seconds of red, and then a 2 and 1 half second eclipse.

866
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:51,160
So pretty cool.

867
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:52,760
So that was a lot.

868
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,520
It's a lot of 50 seconds of white.

869
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:57,520
It's almost fixed.

870
00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:01,680
And then they just had this tiny moment of red.

871
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:04,640
And that was kind of fun.

872
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:10,400
It got electrified in 1938 and was given the third order lens from another Swedish lighthouse.

873
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:11,840
I didn't look too much into it.

874
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:19,160
But 1955, it got a Bifier, which is a second beacon inside the tower at a lower level than

875
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:21,880
the main light with its own light characteristic.

876
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:23,200
So we talked about that as well.

877
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:27,120
And last night, you heard me get excited because I was like, I was just-

878
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:28,120
You were looking for something.

879
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:31,240
Yeah, I was like, I just happened upon something I had a question about.

880
00:35:31,240 --> 00:35:37,880
And it was a angle of the lighthouse where you can see the second light from the inside.

881
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:41,840
I could not figure out where this light was coming out of because it's got tiny windows.

882
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:43,560
It's got a door.

883
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:44,560
Where is the second light?

884
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:46,280
And so I found a picture.

885
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:47,920
It is also a Fresnel lens.

886
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:52,000
It's fifth order and is the fixed white, red, green.

887
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:58,120
Basically, let me show you a picture, but I'll try to describe it first.

888
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:06,080
It's like the Fresnel lens is facing a slot in the lighthouse or a window or some opening.

889
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:12,040
And they have glass plates in front of the Fresnel lens that are different colors.

890
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:16,840
And so it's like if you had glass doors on a door frame, that's what it looks like.

891
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:20,520
And one of them's green, one of them's red.

892
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:24,280
And then there's a tiny space in between the two where it would just be white light filtering

893
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:25,280
through.

894
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:29,920
So when you look at it, you're just seeing an illuminated window basically that's green,

895
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:30,920
white, and red.

896
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:33,040
And there's a Fresnel lens behind that.

897
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:34,040
So it's super powerful.

898
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,200
So what's the purpose of that?

899
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:37,960
So at some position you can tell?

900
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:39,840
Yeah, it's like just more direction.

901
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:40,840
Oh, that's cool.

902
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:41,840
Yeah.

903
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:44,400
So I just pulled up a picture for him to take a look at.

904
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:45,400
That's really cool.

905
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:46,560
I've never seen anything like that.

906
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:47,560
I know, me either.

907
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:51,360
Well, when I first passed this, I was like, what kind of weirdness?

908
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:54,200
I didn't even pay it any attention because I was just like, I don't know what that is

909
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:55,200
all about.

910
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:58,440
That has nothing to do with this lighthouse, but it sure does.

911
00:36:58,440 --> 00:36:59,440
And this never moves.

912
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:00,440
No.

913
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:01,440
Let me show you a picture.

914
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:02,440
It looks like it's open.

915
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:03,440
Wow.

916
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:04,440
It is on a rock.

917
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:09,680
It's hard to tell, but look, you can see this red, white, and green coming through this

918
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:11,560
window.

919
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:15,140
Helicopter photo.

920
00:37:15,140 --> 00:37:17,160
So what is that then?

921
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:19,840
So it's telling you what the position?

922
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:25,480
It's probably just another way that when you're sailing around the lighthouse, once you see

923
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:28,920
this, that maybe you're either on the right path or the wrong path.

924
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:29,920
Oh, you're passing it.

925
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:30,920
Yeah.

926
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:38,160
So this second light is not facing directly out to sea.

927
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:42,560
It looks like, so if you're coming up, this is facing south, I'm thinking.

928
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:48,440
So if you're coming up to the east side of the island from the south, you'd be passing,

929
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:52,320
you'd see red and then white for a moment as you're parallel to the light.

930
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:55,360
And then as you're passing the light, it would turn to green, I think.

931
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:59,960
Well, what do red and green or red and blue mean on boats and planes?

932
00:37:59,960 --> 00:38:02,720
Isn't that showing starboard and port side?

933
00:38:02,720 --> 00:38:04,040
Yeah.

934
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:06,200
If you, yeah.

935
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:12,920
Red and green are usually indicating which side of it you want to be on with your ship.

936
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:18,400
But I don't know if that's relevant here because really the red and the green are just the

937
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:23,400
light colors that go far enough.

938
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:28,280
You don't want to use colors that aren't going to be visible even close to, like if you used

939
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:33,840
purple or something, you wouldn't see it for a long time compared to white.

940
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:37,280
You know, the nautical mile difference would be a lot.

941
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:38,280
So.

942
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:39,280
Well, that's pretty cool.

943
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:43,960
Maybe if you're coming at it, it would show you, you're good to go to the south, to the

944
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:44,960
left, to the red side.

945
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:47,480
And if you go to the right side, you're going to run into the island.

946
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:48,480
Yeah.

947
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:49,480
I don't know.

948
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:50,880
Let's see if we can learn more, but that's cool.

949
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:51,880
I've never seen that before.

950
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:52,880
Yeah.

951
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:54,560
Maybe I'll try and make that a history buoy.

952
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:57,800
The science of the colors they selected.

953
00:38:57,800 --> 00:38:59,480
I do think you're right.

954
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:01,920
It's yeah, I don't know.

955
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:06,120
It makes it more complicated that this is just coming through instead of coming through,

956
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:09,240
you know, 360 degrees, the top of a lighthouse.

957
00:39:09,240 --> 00:39:12,400
It's coming through just a tiny hole in the side.

958
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:13,400
It's not one perspective.

959
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:14,400
Yeah.

960
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:18,240
It's not going to be visible from very many angles.

961
00:39:18,240 --> 00:39:19,800
I doubt there's one on the other side.

962
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:21,040
No, I don't think so.

963
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:22,040
Just one in there.

964
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:23,040
Interesting.

965
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:24,040
Bye, fear.

966
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:25,040
Bye, fear.

967
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:26,040
Bye, bye.

968
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:27,040
Moving on.

969
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:32,480
This was automated in 1963 and nowadays the lighthouse gives chores at 11 a.m., 1 p.m.,

970
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:37,680
and 3 p.m. every day during the summer months and by appointments at other times.

971
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:39,440
Who you contact for an appointment?

972
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:40,840
I cannot figure out.

973
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:43,760
I've sent emails to a couple different places.

974
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:46,880
Is it not technically summertime in May?

975
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:47,880
I don't think so.

976
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:50,080
I think it's still springtime.

977
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:51,080
It's actually chilly.

978
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:53,200
Like, have you seen what the weather is like?

979
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:54,200
No.

980
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:58,320
On the island, it was, I didn't make notes on it, but it is talking about how the climate

981
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:01,960
is very strangely different from the mainland.

982
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:05,600
Things that happen on the mainland don't happen on this island.

983
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:08,280
So it's like a whole separate climate going on.

984
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:12,760
But while we're there, the high is an average of 50.

985
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:13,760
Very high.

986
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:14,760
Yeah.

987
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:20,320
And the all-time high that's ever been on that island during, in the May is 75 degrees.

988
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:21,320
That's cool.

989
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:24,920
So it's going to be a little chilly.

990
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:26,960
I think the all-time low was 24 degrees.

991
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:27,960
Oh, okay.

992
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:28,960
So it's pretty stable.

993
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:29,960
Well, yeah.

994
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:33,840
And actually, I was looking at the weather for this coming week, and the difference between

995
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:37,240
the highs and lows are only about two to three degrees.

996
00:40:37,240 --> 00:40:38,240
Water keeps it stable.

997
00:40:38,240 --> 00:40:39,240
I guess so.

998
00:40:39,240 --> 00:40:41,160
It reminds me of Triangle Island.

999
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:44,880
That was true also for the Little Ross Island.

1000
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:48,160
It was always talked about how things were very different.

1001
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:49,880
Just, I mean, it wasn't even that far away.

1002
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:52,400
It was just like 300 yards or something.

1003
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:56,280
But things between there would just not reach the lighthouse.

1004
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:57,280
Interesting.

1005
00:40:57,280 --> 00:40:58,280
Maybe we can learn more about that too.

1006
00:40:58,280 --> 00:40:59,280
Talk about it.

1007
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:00,280
Yeah.

1008
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:01,280
Yeah.

1009
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:02,280
Weather patterns on islands.

1010
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:03,880
That would be a cool topic.

1011
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:07,200
If you have not listened to Triangle Island, it's one of the episodes that I got to do.

1012
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:08,560
It might have been my first one.

1013
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:09,560
I think it was.

1014
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:10,560
Yeah.

1015
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:12,240
It was a lot of fun.

1016
00:41:12,240 --> 00:41:14,720
There's some good weather stories up there.

1017
00:41:14,720 --> 00:41:15,720
Yeah.

1018
00:41:15,720 --> 00:41:16,720
So what's the outside?

1019
00:41:16,720 --> 00:41:20,360
Is it like a lake or is that like the outside of this tower we're looking at?

1020
00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:21,360
It's white texture.

1021
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:22,360
It might be a coating.

1022
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:23,360
Stucco.

1023
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:24,360
Like the Ocracoke lighthouse.

1024
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:25,360
Yeah.

1025
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:28,680
It kind of looks like it's got that same texture going on.

1026
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:34,280
But I know it's a stone lighthouse, but it's got to have some kind of coating on it.

1027
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:36,600
And then the red looks like a sheet metal.

1028
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:37,600
Yeah.

1029
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:40,080
It's like iron or maybe, I think iron.

1030
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:42,280
Something strong, I'm sure.

1031
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:43,900
Little lightning pole on top.

1032
00:41:43,900 --> 00:41:44,900
So cute.

1033
00:41:44,900 --> 00:41:46,840
Oh, I so badly want to climb it.

1034
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:51,160
We have to make an appointment and I got to figure it out because I want to be able to

1035
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:52,160
go inside.

1036
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:53,880
There's pictures of people climbing it, so it's possible.

1037
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:54,880
I just...

1038
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:58,680
Do you know if you climb it, can you go to the red platform or can you go to the light

1039
00:41:58,680 --> 00:41:59,680
room?

1040
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:00,680
I don't know.

1041
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:01,680
Maybe both.

1042
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:02,680
Maybe we could just ask.

1043
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:03,680
There's a handrail at both.

1044
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:09,120
Well, we know no Swedish, so I'm hoping they know some English.

1045
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:10,120
That's just the hope.

1046
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:11,120
I'm sure they will.

1047
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:13,840
But that's all I have on Lonsorts Fjord.

1048
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:17,640
And I'm going to talk about the island a little bit because if we're going to be visiting,

1049
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:19,560
maybe we can talk about what we want to do.

1050
00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:21,600
Oh gosh, what is it?

1051
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:22,600
Juha...

1052
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:23,600
Ja...

1053
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:24,600
Uja?

1054
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:25,600
Uja.

1055
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:29,600
Like I said, southernmost island in the archipelago.

1056
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:35,040
It's about three miles long and half a mile wide and it's very quiet town with only 27

1057
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:36,040
people living on it.

1058
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:37,040
Nice.

1059
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:40,280
But a lot of people have summer homes here where they vacation.

1060
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:44,960
And really at any time of the year because I think things are a lot more mild, at least

1061
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:49,920
weather wise on this island than in the mainland.

1062
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:53,560
So one of the first few things that pop up when you look up at this island besides the

1063
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:55,440
lighthouse is a pilot tower.

1064
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:59,280
And it's basically like an airport control tower, but for boats.

1065
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:05,680
And so pilots would be directing basically directing traffic of ships to make sure that

1066
00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:09,440
they wouldn't be hitting rocks and stuff.

1067
00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:11,960
Make sure they're heading in the right direction.

1068
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:16,440
It's newly renovated and now a hotel with a renowned chef working there.

1069
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:22,680
So if you stay at this hotel, then you get really delicious meals.

1070
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:25,440
And they have pictures online on their website.

1071
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:30,080
And I'm linking everything that I looked at, everything I'm referencing is going to be

1072
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:31,080
in the show notes.

1073
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:32,400
There's a ton of references.

1074
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:37,520
I think I have like 15 different links where you can look at stuff.

1075
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:41,520
There's two rooms per floor and there's a shared bathroom on each floor and two people

1076
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:44,440
can stay in each room, but they're like little twin beds.

1077
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:48,760
So we'd be like, it's like we're in a dorm.

1078
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:56,400
The restaurant Svetljas is where the chef works and it's part of the hotel experience

1079
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:57,760
is the restaurant.

1080
00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:03,440
And I believe you can eat there by appointment, not in the summer months.

1081
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:07,160
And so that's one of the phone numbers that I'm going to have chase calls.

1082
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:11,560
If we can arrange to eat there when it's not.

1083
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:17,840
So you mentioned this is a pilot's tower, pilot tower, which is now a hotel as well.

1084
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:21,080
So I don't think there's, I don't think it's used.

1085
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:26,680
Pilots are people who go out on small boats, on pilot boats and get on large boats and

1086
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:29,040
bring them into port or take them away from port.

1087
00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:30,600
That's what I thought pilots did.

1088
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:31,600
Okay.

1089
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:38,520
So I don't only know that because I was sitting in Alaska at a dock and I saw a boat that

1090
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:41,120
said, I'm pretty sure now my memory is failing.

1091
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:42,120
It said pilot boat.

1092
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:43,120
And I was like, what's that?

1093
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:47,720
My dad told me we saw some old guy get on and get taken out with a backpack.

1094
00:44:47,720 --> 00:44:52,480
And I guess they like jump on a ship and that's their whole job is cause they know the port

1095
00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:53,480
really well.

1096
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:55,680
So they take over the boat.

1097
00:44:55,680 --> 00:45:00,880
In my head, I was thinking they were up there and this was like, like radio communication.

1098
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:01,880
Yeah.

1099
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:04,600
That they would connect and talk them through it.

1100
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:05,600
But you could be right.

1101
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:10,840
There could be, there's just not a lot of places to jump on and off this island easily.

1102
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:16,720
And they would have to cut around to the, um, the west side of the island, which would

1103
00:45:16,720 --> 00:45:21,920
be make it very difficult for them to continue on the pathway up towards Stockholm.

1104
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:22,920
I don't know.

1105
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:23,920
So I don't know.

1106
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:25,280
Hopefully we'll learn some more.

1107
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:26,280
Yeah.

1108
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:30,080
We can ask when we get there, but if you make an appointment and special arrangements, you

1109
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:32,680
can sit on the seventh floor of the pilot tower.

1110
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:36,600
So you can get like a nice view while you're eating your seven floors.

1111
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:37,720
Oh my gosh.

1112
00:45:37,720 --> 00:45:46,120
Wednesdays during the summer have live music on the terrace and really delicious food.

1113
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:47,560
Look at my show notes.

1114
00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:49,760
There's pictures of the food that they serve.

1115
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:53,720
And also there's been a lot of blog posts from people that go to this restaurant or

1116
00:45:53,720 --> 00:45:58,000
stay in the tower and they have really nice things to say about the food.

1117
00:45:58,000 --> 00:45:59,000
Nice.

1118
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:00,080
And then we can go there.

1119
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:04,120
If not, there's a pub called Lansort Saltboden.

1120
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:05,120
I don't know.

1121
00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:10,960
I don't have any other information, but that that's the, I think they said that's the only

1122
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:12,520
other place to eat on the island.

1123
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:13,520
Wow.

1124
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:14,520
It's very small.

1125
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:15,520
Hopefully they're open.

1126
00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:20,120
We'd be like, okay, well catch a boat off here.

1127
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:21,440
So what else is there in town?

1128
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:23,760
I mean, people, so there's summer homes are out there.

1129
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:24,760
Yeah.

1130
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:26,880
It's a very popular place for birding.

1131
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:29,640
So a lot of people go to say birds.

1132
00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:30,760
You can rent bikes.

1133
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:33,800
There's lots of art, like local art there.

1134
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:42,120
There's a plague cemetery and south of that remnants of a labyrinth dating back at least

1135
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:45,680
300, sorry, 3000 years.

1136
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:49,240
Labyrinth like a maze.

1137
00:46:49,240 --> 00:46:53,440
So legend has it that when you found your way through, when they had built it originally,

1138
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:59,360
you'd be given good fortune in fishing and fertility.

1139
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:04,360
And actually most coastal labyrinths were built to be like magic.

1140
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:09,520
Like they built them so that you would pass through it and be given good fortune for the

1141
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:10,720
fishing season.

1142
00:47:10,720 --> 00:47:12,320
Apparently.

1143
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:13,320
So there's remnants of that.

1144
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:18,880
You can go see just a bunch of like little, you can swim in the Harbor and there's lots

1145
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:22,720
of like half of this island is like a forest.

1146
00:47:22,720 --> 00:47:23,720
You can go explore.

1147
00:47:23,720 --> 00:47:29,200
There's like different lookout points where you can go to and a sunken ship and just things

1148
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:30,200
to explore.

1149
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:31,200
Cool.

1150
00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:32,680
And the islands all, it's all walkable.

1151
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:37,320
They have from top to bottom, they have a walking path or you can rent a bike and bike

1152
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:38,320
it.

1153
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:40,000
Do you know the story of the sunken ship?

1154
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:41,320
I read it, but I don't remember it now.

1155
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:42,320
I didn't make a note.

1156
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:43,320
Nothing to do with the lighthouse.

1157
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:44,320
No.

1158
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:45,320
Turning off.

1159
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:46,320
Nope.

1160
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:47,320
Fortunately, no.

1161
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:48,320
The colors got mixed up.

1162
00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:49,320
Cool.

1163
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:50,320
But yeah.

1164
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:51,320
That is it.

1165
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:52,320
Beautiful.

1166
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:56,200
That is the story and history behind Lanssortsfjär.

1167
00:47:56,200 --> 00:47:57,200
Yeah.

1168
00:47:57,200 --> 00:47:58,200
The Bafjär.

1169
00:47:58,200 --> 00:47:59,200
In Sweden.

1170
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:05,800
I was going to try to say the island to me again and I was like, yeah.

1171
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:07,760
Doing our best as well as we can.

1172
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:09,440
We'll have to report back.

1173
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:10,440
Yeah.

1174
00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:11,440
Maybe we have it right.

1175
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:12,440
Maybe we would just be.

1176
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:14,440
Oh yeah.

1177
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:18,880
I think we got a new audio interface courtesy of ourselves.

1178
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:21,080
And so we sponsored ourselves on that one.

1179
00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:25,760
It's a big, big purchase, but it may allow us to do a couple more tricks in the near

1180
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:28,480
future including playing sounds.

1181
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:31,680
So that would be nice.

1182
00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:35,000
I can have the pronunciations ready so I never have to say it.

1183
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:37,000
I'd have to click a button and it just comes out.

1184
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:38,000
Yeah.

1185
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:43,200
And I'll have the friend's laugh track ready to go.

1186
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:44,200
Not good.

1187
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:45,200
All right.

1188
00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:46,200
Let me see.

1189
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:48,400
I think I have another photo to show you.

1190
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:53,120
This is the drawing, a drawing of what it looked like before they had added that top

1191
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:54,120
on it.

1192
00:48:54,120 --> 00:48:55,800
So probably just took off this.

1193
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:56,800
It made her thick.

1194
00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:57,800
It looks rugged.

1195
00:48:57,800 --> 00:48:59,520
It looks like a rap album cover.

1196
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:03,200
This looks like before they like maybe repainted it or something.

1197
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:05,920
Maybe it had to get a good pressure wash after this.

1198
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:06,920
Is that a cannon?

1199
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:07,920
Oh yes.

1200
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:08,920
I didn't even talk about any of that.

1201
00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:09,920
You're going to talk about military.

1202
00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:10,920
Oh no.

1203
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:15,760
It's, I don't have notes on it, but they have like coastal.

1204
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:16,760
Tell us all about it.

1205
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:17,760
Artilleries.

1206
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:25,000
There's something else you can, you can, it's a nuclear bomb proof facility that's like

1207
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:27,840
underground in the island that you can tour.

1208
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:28,840
Awesome.

1209
00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:29,840
Yeah.

1210
00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:34,760
It's like, it was built to hold the soldiers there for a month, like without them having

1211
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:35,760
to leave.

1212
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:36,760
Wow.

1213
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:38,840
And then I don't, I don't have it ready.

1214
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:40,040
I can't believe it's something I forgot.

1215
00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:44,280
I wrote it in our, our travel notes for visiting here, but didn't.

1216
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:47,160
Well, I think we should just do a part two after we visit.

1217
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:51,680
Yeah, maybe we could do it like a recap of the two lighthouses.

1218
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:52,680
Two lighthouses.

1219
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:56,040
Well, lawn sorts and then the Japanese lighthouse.

1220
00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:57,040
Oh, okay.

1221
00:49:57,040 --> 00:49:58,040
All right.

1222
00:49:58,040 --> 00:49:59,040
Well, cool.

1223
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:00,040
It's gorgeous.

1224
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:01,560
There's a cannon in this photo, I think.

1225
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:02,560
Yep.

1226
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:06,560
They've got, gosh, I can't believe I never look it up.

1227
00:50:06,560 --> 00:50:07,560
All right.

1228
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:09,400
Go to our show notes.

1229
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:12,600
I have lots of references and websites there.

1230
00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:16,200
If you want to go check out the things that I've talked about and also in the show notes

1231
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:21,680
will be a link tree link where you can follow us on any of our social medias or figure out

1232
00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:25,120
how to contact us or see where you can listen to our podcasts.

1233
00:50:25,120 --> 00:50:26,120
Very good.

1234
00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:27,120
Thank you guys for listening.

1235
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:46,960
We'll see you next time on the lighthouse blow down.