Headlight of the End of the world

The Phare of the end of the world of La Rochelle is the counterpart with identical famous Phare of the end of the world, set up on a rock headland with 70 meters above the sea level, on the Île of the States to broad of the Cape Horn in 1884 and which inspired Jules Verne for his novel the Headlight of the end of the world , published in 1905, shortly after its death.

It is a Phare in Bois of form hexadécagonale and projecting the light produced by 7 lamps running on the oil of colza on two sides, through large crystals. The beam has a range of 26 km on an angle of 93°.

Left with the abandonment in 1902 because of the extreme conditions, the headlight is destroyed. Its vestiges are redécouverts by André Bronner, known as Yul Vernes , an adventurer rochelais, decide to make it rebuild in 1994 and occupy a team of ten people for this purpose: Jan Kamerbeek, Eric Lelaurin, Daniel Noureau, Jean Dryness, Sylvain Berthommé, Pascal Ducourtioux, Guillaume Mérigeaux, Gilbert Maurel, and Gildas Flahault.

Through the rebuilding of this headlight, he wants to support the cultural exchanges between France and Argentina. With this intention, it creates with the La Rochelle the “Association of the headlight of the end of the world”.

February 26th, 1998, at the end of the world, the headlight emits its light again.

André Bronner decides to set up of it a counterpart with the Point of Tiny, with 12 780 km of distance, which is inaugurated on January 1st, 2000.

Internal bond

List of the headlights of France

External bond

the association of the Headlight of the end of the world

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