Bjørnøy Lighthouse ( no, Bjørnøy fyr) is a
coastal lighthouse
A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid, for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.
Lighthouses mark ...
in
Bodø Municipality
Bodø (; smj, Bådåddjo, sv, Bodö) is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Salten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Bodø (which is also the capital of Nordland count ...
in
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 small island of Bjørnøya, just east of the larger
Landegode
Landegode is an island in Bodø Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The island is located about northwest of the town of Bodø and about east of the Helligvær islands. The highest point on the mountainous island is the tall Rypdals ...
island. The lighthouse is about north of the
town of Bodø and about southeast of
Landegode Lighthouse
Landegode Lighthouse ( no, Landegode fyr) is a coastal lighthouse in Bodø Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located on the small island of Eggløysa just north of Landegode, about north of the town of Bodø and about southwest of ...
.
The light sits atop a tall concrete tower. It has a white, red, or green light (depending on direction) that is
occulting
An occultation is an event that occurs when one object is hidden from the observer by another object that passes between them. The term is often used in astronomy, but can also refer to any situation in which an object in the foreground blocks ...
twice every 7.5 seconds. The lighthouse is painted white and the lantern roof is red. The light sits at an elevation of above sea level.
History
The original lighthouse building was constructed in 1890. The light was mounted on a stone base and attached to the seaward end of a -story keeper's house. The house was white and the light portion was red. That light was in use from 1890 until 1972 when it was replaced by a new, automated, concrete tower. The old building sits just a short distance from the new light.
See also
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Lighthouses in Norway
The coast of Norway is 100,915 km long and there have been a total of 212 lighthouses along it, but no more than 154 have ever been operational at the same time. The first, Lindesnes Lighthouse, opened in 1655; the newest Lighthouse, Anda, ...
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List of lighthouses in Norway
The following is a sortable, but partial list of active and some decommissioned lighthouses along the Norwegian coastline.
The sequence number follows the convention of listing lighthouses from the coastal border in the south with Sweden around ...
References
External links
Norsk Fyrhistorisk Forening
Picture of Bjørnøy Lighthouse
Lighthouses completed in 1890
Lighthouses in Nordland
Buildings and structures in Bodø
1890 establishments in Norway
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