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  The 19th century recognition-beacon on the Isle of Bengtskär (picture 30.1.1906)

Groundwork 18.6.1906, Construction workers 21.6.1906

11.8.1906, 15.9.1906, 21.10.1906

The lighthouse was completed and the light was first lit 19.12.1906

  Rudolf Björkell outside his childhood home

  Lieutenant Eriksson on watch in the tower

  Bengtskär burning 26.7.1941

     Battlemarks on the north and south side of Bengtskär 1941

  Lighthouse keeper Otto Nyberg after the war

       Archive pictures

     Re-opening 1995

        More battlemarks   Photographed in May 2004 by Leena Lähdesmäki