Ile Aux Galets

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Ile aux Galets, also known as Skilligallee or Skilligalee Island, is located in northeast Lake Michigan approximately 7.0 miles (11.3 km) northwest of Cross Village, Michigan. This Emmet County, Michigan site has been the site of a lighthouse operated by the U.S. government since 1850. The current 58-foot (17.5-m) light tower was built in 1888 and equipped with a fourth order Fresnel lens.

The islet and lighthouse were occupied by lighthouse keepers from 1850 until 1969. In the latter year the Fresnel lens was retired and replaced by a modern automated lantern.

The islet is home to a significant colony of ring-billed gulls. Its name, given by early French explorers, means "Isle of Pebbles."

[edit] External links

• National Park Service Inventory of Historic Lighthouses, Maritime Heritage, Ile Aux Galets light.
• Interactive map of lighthouses in northern Lake Michigan.
• Lighthouses in the Mackinac Straits, Lighthouse Friends (Skillagallee Island Light).
• Map of Michigan Lighthouse in PDF Format.
• Terry Pepper, Seeing the Light, Skillagallee Island Light Station
• U.S. Coast Guard's Historic Light Station Information & Photography
• Volume 7, US Coast Guard Lightlist (PDF).

[edit] Bibliography and further reading

• Bibliography on Michigan lighthouses.
• Hyde, Charles K., and Ann and John Mahan. The Northern Lights: Lighthouses of the Upper Great Lakes. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1995. ISBN 0814325548 ISBN 9780814325544.
• Oleszewski, Wes, Great Lakes Lighthouses, American and Canadian: A Comprehensive Directory/Guide to Great Lakes Lighthouses, (Gwinn, Michigan: Avery Color Studios, Inc., 1998) ISBN 0-932212-98-0.
• Penrod, John, Lighthouses of Michigan, (Berrien Center, Michigan: Penrod/Hiawatha, 1998) ISBN 9780942618785 ISBN 9781893624238.
• Penrose, Laurie and Bill, A Traveler’s Guide to 116 Michigan Lighthouses (Petoskey, Michigan: Friede Publications, 1999). ISBN 0923756035 ISBN 9780923756031
• Pepper, Terry. Seeing the Light: Lighthouses on the western Great Lakes.
• Putnam, George R., Lighthouses and Lightships of the United States, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1933).
• Wagner, John L.. Beacons Shining in the Night: The Lighthouses of Michigan. Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University.
• Wagner, John L., Michigan Lighthouses: An Aerial Photographic Perspective, (East Lansing, Michigan: John L. Wagner, 1998) ISBN 1880311011 ISBN 9781880311011.
• Wright, Larry and Wright, Patricia, Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia Hardback (Erin: Boston Mills Press, 2006) ISBN 1550463993.