This lighthouse sits at the northern tip of the ninety-mile long Admiralty Island. In 1794, the English explorer George Vancouver sent an officer ashore here to find food and water. However the fellow encountered a band of celebrating natives, and beat a hasty retreat. The tip of land had found a name, and 110 years later, it had its first lighthouse. The lighthouse is now automated, and stands as a historic reminder of Alaska’s Inside Passage history. In this image, the setting sun leaves its last light upon the top of the massive mountain rising behind the lighthouse and gilds the tiny-whitewashed structures below. The last light of the day symbolically echoes the function of the lighthouse itself.