The Demise of Scotch Cap Lighthouse

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Jan 16, 2015   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

In spring of 1946, five men stationed at the Scotch Cap lighthouse had reasons to be happy. World War II was over. They had survived. Their lonely Coast Guard assignment on Unimak Island would be over in a few months. But the lighthouse tenders would never return to their homes in the Lower 48. In […]