ARLA/CLUSTER: Alemanha à frente nas inscrições para o ILLW 2014

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

ILLW continues to grow

Germany has taken the lead in the International Lighthouse and
Lightship Weekend held in August with 32 marine beacons already
registered, closely ahead of its usual rival Australia that has 30
registrations.

Club station DL0SY on Germany's northern-most Sylt Island is to
activate four lighthouses - List-west, List-east, Kampen and Hornum -
that helped navigate early ships around the distinctively shaped
coast.

In Australia, the virgin registration of the Griffith Island
Lighthouse, which guided ships into Port Fairy in south-western
Victoria in its long gone whaling era - has been made by Peter Fraser
VK3ZPF.

Formal permission is being sought for Griffith Island which attracts
birdwatchers to see the many nesting birds, including the shearwater's
that migrate from the northern hemisphere each year.

Also husband and wife Joe VK3YSP and Julie Gonzales VK3FOWL will also
be at the Queenscliff White Lighthouse that hasn't been activated
since 2002.

In other registrations England has 10, the USA 8, Argentina 5, and
Canada & Ireland 4 - these among 23 countries with a total of 120
registrations so far.

To see previous activity reports and pictures, or register on line for
the next International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend on August the
16th and 17th, visit the website www.illw.net

Jim Linton VK3PC