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Cape St. Paul Lighthouse

Lighthouse in Ghana

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ16256473 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Cape St. Paul Lighthouse was built in 1901 near Woe, Ghana.

It has a skeletal pyramidal base with the upper third enclosed and housing the lantern and gallery.

Editorial summary

“Cape St. Paul Lighthouse” enters the record as lighthouse in Ghana. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Cape, Paul and Lighthouse can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1901—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1901. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Cape, Paul and Lighthouse.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Cape St. Paul Lighthouse” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Cape, Paul and Lighthouse provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16256473. Authority coordinates are 5.828, 0.969. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1901.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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This entry incorporates text from “Cape St. Paul Lighthouse” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.