Åsvær Lighthouse ( no, Åsvær fyr) is a

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Dønna Municipality Dønna is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Helgeland region. The administrative centre of the island municipality is the village of Solfjellsjøen. Other villages include Bjørn, Dønnes, Hestad, Sandåker, and V ...

Nordland Nordland (; smj, Nordlánnda, sma, Nordlaante, sme, Nordlánda, en, Northland) is a county in Norway in the Northern Norway region, the least populous of all 11 counties, bordering Troms og Finnmark in the north, Trøndelag in the south, N ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. It is located on the island of

Åsvær Åsvær is a small group of islands lying on the Arctic Circle in the municipality of Dønna in Nordland county, Norway. The islands lie on the south side of the Nordåsværfjord, about south of the island of Lovund Lovund is an island and v ...

, about north of the village of

Vandve Vandve or Vandved is an island in the municipality of Dønna in Nordland county, Norway. The flat island lies about west of the island of Dønna and about south of the Åsvær islands. Vandve Church is located on the island. There is a regula ...

, about northwest of the island of

Dønna Dønna is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Nordland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Helgeland Districts of Norway, region. The administrative centre of the island municipality is the village of Solfjellsj ...

, and about south of the village of

Lovund Lovund is an island and village in the municipality of Lurøy in Nordland county, Norway. The island is located west of the Solvær islands and southeast of the Træna islands. Lovund is notable for the large puffin breeding colony located on t ...

. The tall lighthouse was first built in 1876. The original lighthouse was replaced in 1919 after a tough winter storm. The new lighthouse was automated in 1980, and it was listed as a protected site in 2000. The lighthouse includes an tall red,

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tower. The light sits on top of the tower at an elevation of above sea level. The 28,800-

candela The candela ( or ; symbol: cd) is the unit of luminous intensity in the International System of Units (SI). It measures luminous power per unit solid angle emitted by a light source in a particular direction. Luminous intensity is analogous to ...

light can be seen for up to . The light emits a white, red or green light depending on direction,

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in groups of two every eight seconds.

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Norsk Fyrhistorisk Forening
Lighthouses completed in 1876 Lighthouses completed in 1919 Lighthouses in Nordland Dønna Listed lighthouses in Norway {{Norway-lighthouse-stub

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