pharos n : a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships [syn: beacon, lighthouse, beacon light]

Pharos may refer to:

Places:

• Hvar, an island in the Adriatic Sea off the coast of Croatia, originally Pharos

Lighthouses:

• Lighthouse of Alexandria, Egypt, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, as well as the island (now a peninsula) on which the lighthouse stood
• A Roman lighthouse at Dubris (Dover, England)
• Pharos Lighthouse (Fleetwood), in Fleetwood, England

Music:

• Pharos (album), an ambient music album by SETI

Popular Culture:

• A project featured in the Logopolis serial of the Doctor Who TV series
• A planet that features in Doctor Who's 12-part animated adventure, The Infinite Quest
• A tower reminiscent of a lighthouse in the video game Final Fantasy XII
• An important NPC in the video game Persona 3. He is the S.Link for the Death tarot arcana

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