Vinga Fyr
Volcanic-rock island lighthouse with a red pyramid beacon, guarding the harbour approach since 1841.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Vinga Fyr, the lighthouse island off Gothenburg, is about appetite: how some thirty-five keepers, wives, children and maids fed themselves on a bare volcanic rock ten nautical miles out to sea around nineteen hundred. It follows the Taube household in the master keeper's house, led by a sea captain with a famously strong appetite, and the monthly trip to the city for supplies. Best heard standing on the rock between the red pyramid beacon and the tower.
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