At the tip of the Minims is the Lighthouse at the End of the World, a replica of the famous lighthouse at the end of the world built on Staten Island off Cape Horn in 1884, and which inspired Jules Verne for his novel The Light at the end of World, published in 1905, shortly after his death. It was built by Andrew Bonner, La Rochelle adventurer who also rebuilt the original, and was inaugurated on 1 January 2000.
It is a wooden lighthouse-shaped hexadécagonale and projecting the light produced by lamps operating at seven rapeseed oil. The beam has a range of 26 km at an angle of 93 °.
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