Can anyone come up with a circumstance in which land lighthouses are still in use by the present day?
I was wondering if perhaps they could somehow come into use on trade routes across the Sahara Desert, or something like that...
Wikipedia said:A land lighthouse is simply a lighthouse constructed to aid navigation over land, rather than water. Historically, they were constructed in areas of flatland where the featureless landscape and prevailing weather conditions (e.g. winter fog) might cause travellers to become easily disorientated and lost. In such a landscape a high tower with a bright lantern could be visible for many kilometres.
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Due to general improvements in transport and navigation throughout the 19th century, land lighthouses became almost totally obsolete as aids to travellers in remote places.
I was wondering if perhaps they could somehow come into use on trade routes across the Sahara Desert, or something like that...