The Grip Lighthouse ( no, Grip fyrstasjon) is located in the
Grip
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archipelago in the municipality of
Kristiansund in
Møre og Romsdal
Møre og Romsdal (; en, Møre and Romsdal) is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway. It borders the counties of Trøndelag, Innlandet, and Vestland. The county administration is located in the town of Molde, while Ålesund is the ...
county,
Norway. The
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 mar ...
was built between 1885 and 1888 on the high islet of ''Bratthårskollen'', north of Gripholmen.
Description
The tall lighthouse is a red
cast iron tower on a white granite
stonemasonry
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base. This is the second tallest lighthouse tower in Norway. The lighthouse's range is , and the white, red, or green light, depending on direction, is occulting every eight seconds.
The islet is barren rock with just the lighthouse tower, a
concrete boathouse
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, and two
wharves. The lighthouse keepers lived inside the lighthouse tower. A
radio beacon
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was operated between 1947 and 1986, which was replaced with a
frequency-agile racon signalling "G" with a range of 4 nm. The lighthouse was
electrified in 1932, and is unmanned since it was automated in 1977. In 2000, it became protected as a
cultural heritage
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site. The
pilot station was shut down in 1969.
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
Lighthouses completed in 1888
Buildings and structures in Kristiansund
Lighthouses in Møre og Romsdal
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