Gjæslingan Lighthouse () 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 lens (optics), lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.
Ligh ...
in
Nærøysund Municipality
Nærøysund is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Namdalen. The municipality was established on 1 January 2020 after the mer ...
in
Trøndelag
Trøndelag (; or is a county and coextensive with the Trøndelag region (also known as ''Midt-Norge'' or ''Midt-Noreg,'' "Mid-Norway") in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County (); in 1804 the county was ...
,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...
.
It was established in 1877, was reinforced in 1961 and automated in 1987.
Gjæslingan lighthouse stands on the Haraldsøykråka islet which is part of the
Sør-Gjæslingan
Sør-Gjæslingan is an archipelago in Nærøysund Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The island group is located in at the entrance to the Folda fjord, about to the southwest of the town of Rørvik and about to the southeast of the Nord ...
island group on the north side of the
Folda Folda may refer to:
Places
* Folda, Angus, a hamlet in Angus, Scotland
* Folda, Nordland, a fjord in Nordland county, Norway
* Folda (Rindal), a river in Møre og Romsdal and Trøndelag counties in Norway
* Folda, Trøndelag
Folda is a firth ...
fjord. The white building consists of a high red iron tower on a stone base. The white light flashes once every ten seconds, and it can be seen for about . The lighthouse also emits a "G"
Racon
Radar beacon (short: racon) is – according to ''article 1.103'' of the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) ITU Radio Regulations (RR) – defined as "A transmitter-receiver associated with a fixed navigational mark which, when trig ...
signal.
See also
*
Lighthouses in Norway
The coast of Norway is 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 Lighthouse, w ...
*
List of lighthouses in Norway
The following is a sortable, but partial list of active and some decommissioned Lighthouses in Norway, lighthouses along the Norwegian coastline.
The sequence number follows the convention of listing lighthouses from the coastal border in the sou ...
References
External links
Norsk Fyrhistorisk Forening
Lighthouses completed in 1877
Lighthouses in Trøndelag
Nærøysund
Vikna
1877 establishments in Norway
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