The Buholmråsa Lighthouse ( no, Buholmråsa 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 the municipality of

Osen Osen is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Fosen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Steinsdalen. The municipality is the 240th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in No ...

in Trøndelag county, Norway. The lighthouse is located in the Svesfjorden on the small island ''Sønnaholmen'' about northwest of the village of Seter. It was built in 1917 and automated in 1994. The

Kya Lighthouse The Kya Lighthouse ( no, Kya fyrstasjon) is a coastal lighthouse in the municipality of Osen in Trøndelag county, Norway. The lighthouse is located on the small island of Kya in the ocean about northwest of the village of Seter. The Buholmrå ...

lies on a small island in the open ocean about to the northwest of Buholmråsa Lighthouse. During World War II, air raids damaged some of the buildings at this station. The tall, round, cast iron lighthouse is red with one white stripe and it can be seen for up to . The light sits on top at an elevation of above sea level. The 140,400- candela light emits a white, red, or green light (depending on direction),

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 ...

once every six seconds. The lighthouse also broadcasts a racon signal that is a

morse code Morse code is a method used in telecommunication to encode text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called ''dots'' and ''dashes'', or ''dits'' and ''dahs''. Morse code is named after Samuel Morse, one of ...

letter B (-•••).

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Norsk Fyrhistorisk Forening
Lighthouses completed in 1917 Osen Lighthouses in Trøndelag {{Norway-lighthouse-stub

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