The Lamp-post was a major landmark in the country of Narnia, located in the north-western area, populated by Dryads and Fauns, which was named the Lantern Waste after it. Resembling a London streetlamp, it stood in the middle of the forest and shone day and night. It was at the lamp-post that Lucy Pevensie first met Mr. Tumnus, who told her that it marked the beginning of Narnia. The Lamp-post's ability to burn continuously without fuel (old London streetlamps ran on gas) may have been due to the fact that it is an organic living thing, not a manufactured artifact, as other street-lamps are.