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Flannan Isle
''Flannan Isle'' is a famous English language poem by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, first published in 1912. It refers to a mysterious incident that occurred on the Flannan Isles in 1900, when three lighthouse-keepers disappeared without explanation.〔(''Flannan Isle'' ) poetry-archive.com Retrieved 8 Jan 2011.〕
==In popular culture==
The poem ''Flannan Isle'' is quoted by Tom Baker as the Doctor at the end of the ''Doctor Who'' story ''Horror of Fang Rock'', which was set on a lighthouse and involved an alien explanation for the tragedy that befell the three keepers there and survivors of a shipwreck.
For the 1994 album ''Chansons des mers froides'' (''Songs from the Cold Seas''), French producer Hector Zazou adapted an extract of the poem ''Flannan Isle'' as a song entitled ''The Lighthouse''. Lead vocals were performed by Siouxsie Sioux of Siouxsie and the Banshees, and backing vocals were provided by a female Nanai shaman.
The Genesis song ''The Mystery of Flannan Isle Lighthouse'' (on ''Archive 1967-75'') is based on the incident.
Likewise the opera ''The Lighthouse'' by Peter Maxwell Davies.
The novel ''Some Strange Scent of Death'' by Angela J Elliott takes its name from a line in the poem and tells of the disappearance of the lighthouse keepers.
The main story of the video game Dark Fall II: Lights Out contains characters and locations related to the incident.
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