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Geographic coordinates: 44° 03' 54" N 68° 39' 06" W
Nearest town: Isle au Haut. Located at Robinson Point on the west coast of Isle au Haut, on the south side of the western entrance to Isle au Haut Thorofare.
Established: 1907. Present lighthouse built: 1907. Automated: 1934.
Height of tower: 40 feet. Height of focal plane: 48 feet.
Earlier optic: Fourth-order Fresnel lens. Present optic: 250 mm.
Characteristic: Red flash every 4 seconds with a white sector.
This brick tower on a granite base is very similar to the lighthouses built earlier at Ram Island and Marshall Point. The tower is slightly offshore and is reached via a wooden walkway. The original optic, a fourth-order Fresnel lens, is now at the Maine Lighthouse Museum in Rockland.
The light had only two keepers in its brief life as a staffed station. The property (except for the lighthouse) was sold to Charles E. Robinson, a resident of the island, after the light’s 1934 automation.
In 1986, the property was purchased by Jeff and Judi Burke. The Burkes converted the keeper’s house into a bed and breakfast called, appropriately enough, the Keeper’s House Inn. Even the oil house was converted into a cozy guest room. The inn was the realization of a dream for the Burkes. The setting, with thick pine woods opening up to the sparkling ocean, is incomparable. Deer, osprey, eagles, and mink abound.
The keeper’s house property was put on sale in the summer of 2007. At this writing, the inn is closed except for weekly rentals of a cottage on the property.
Under the Maine Lights Program, the lighthouse tower was turned over to the town of Isle au Haut in April 1998. A restoration of the lighthouse was finished in June 1999, thanks to the Isle au Haut Lighthouse Committee.
Isle au Haut is reached by taking the mailboat/passenger ferry (207-367-6516, www.isleauhaut.com) from Stonington. The lighthouse is a hike of a little less than a mile from the town landing. Maps of Isle au Haut can be obtained in Stonington or at the Acadia National Park visitor center in Bar Harbor. (Much of Isle au Haut is part of Acadia National Park.) The lighthouse can also be seen from the “Lighthouses Boat Trip” offered by Old Quarry Ocean Adventures (207-367-8977, www.oldquarry.com) of Stonington. Seasonal lighthouse cruises offered by the Isle au Haut Company in Stonington also provide a view.
Fascinating Fact 
Charles E. Robinson, who bought the keeper’s house after the light was automated, was the great-grandfather of writer Linda Greenlaw (The Lobster Chronicles).
