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Pilot Island: the lonely lighthouse that guards the waters of Death’s Door

Summary by RANDOM Times •
On a map, Pilot Island appears almost insignificant—a tiny speck of land measuring just 3.5 acres at the northern entrance to Wisconsin’s Door County. Yet this isolated island has played an outsized role in one of North America’s most dangerous stretches of water. For more than 160 years, its lighthouse has stood watch over a passage so feared that sailors gave it a name that has survived generations: Death’s Door. Even today, the name alone is …
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RANDOM Times • broke the news on Thursday, August 13, 2026.
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