![]() ![]() Vasquez, the only survivor, spends several months until the dispatch boat Santa-Fé is due to return, surviving off the pirates' hidden stores of food in a cave. Two of them are murdered by a band of newly arrived pirates led by one Kongre. Unbeknownst to Vasquez, Moriz, and Felipe, the chief lighthouse keeper and his helpers, the island was the domain of a dozen marooned pirates, who bide their time in wrecking. ![]() ![]() The lighthouse guided ships into the Le Maire Strait or south of the island, and was to be staffed by 3 keepers over the next 3 months, until the return of the Santa-Fé. 1859, standing 103 feet in height on top of a mound 120 feet high, and illuminated by oil. 1858 to construct the lighthouse, which was inaugurated on 9 Dec. Verne sets the plot by stating, "The Argentine Republic had displayed a happy initiative in constructing this lighthouse at the end of the world," within Elgor Bay and the harbor of Saint-Jean "forms a kind of pendant to Elgor Bay." The despatch boat Santa-Fé arrived on Oct. 1898 photo of the actual Lighthouse San Juan del Salvamento ![]()
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