Every Three Hours, the Keeper Climbed Again
From a match blown out by sea wind to a six-hour trip to hospital and a return to the tower, Wang Guangmin’s account reveals the labor behind Lingao Cape’s light.
Lingao Cape Lighthouse
A lighthouse at Lingao Cape whose former keeper Wang Guangmin worked by a mechanical lamp before its electrical upgrade in the 1990s.
Nanhai Network’s account locates the lighthouse at Lingao Cape and traces its work through the keeper Wang Guangmin. Its 1893 construction date and role as a navigation mark for the western entrance of the Qiongzhou Strait give the site a maritime frame; the story’s close detail is practical: a lamp cover, a match repeatedly blown out by wind, a clockwork mechanism wound every three hours, and rust scraped from the tower.
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Lingao Lighthouse, photographed on 3 October 2021; the frame also includes a roof and palms.STW932 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Retained source: Wikimedia standard 1280-pixel thumbnail; upstream full-size original was not downloaded. WebP copies were scaled without enlargement.