Coast Guard flies out to fix remote Michigan lighthouse known as ‘the Loneliest Place in the World’

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Coast Guard flies out to fix remote Michigan lighthouse known as ‘the Loneliest Place in the World’
Updated Feb 01, 2021; Posted Feb 01, 2021
Stannard Rock Lighthouse

Icy conditions greeted U.S. Coast Guard crews during a Jan. 26, 2021 trip out to Stannard Rock Lighthouse.
 
By Tanda Gmiter | tgmiter@mlive.com

LAKE SUPERIOR, MI - After a harsh winter storm blew out a window in the very remote Stannard Rock Lighthouse in Lake Superior, a team from the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Alder recently hitched a ride on a Jayhawk helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City to make the icy repair.

Teams had been worried the missing window could threaten the electronics inside - and even the working light - at the historic lighthouse that sits off the eastern shore of Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula.

Built 24 miles from the Upper Peninsula shoreline, Stannard Rock is considered the lighthouse farthest from shor

e in the contiguous United States. That has earned it the grim moniker as “The Loneliest Place in the World.”

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