Halten Lighthouse ( no, Halten fyr) is a

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in the municipality of Frøya in

Trøndelag Trøndelag (; sma, Trööndelage) is a county in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County ( no, Trondhjems Amt); in 1804 the county was split into Nord-Trøndelag and Sør-Trøndelag by the King of Denmar ...

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 ...

. The

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is situated in the now uninhabited fishing village of

Halten Halten is a municipality in the district of Wasseramt in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. History Halten is first mentioned in 1201 as ''Haltun''. In 1274 it was mentioned as ''Halton''. Geography Halten has an area, , of . Of th ...

. It was first lit in 1875, and it is the northernmost of the chain of lighthouses marking the string of islands called

Froan Froan or Froøyene is a populated archipelago of small, rocky islands in the municipality of Frøya in Trøndelag county, Norway. Froan consists of several hundred islands and islets that lie in the sea about west of the Fosen peninsula. The i ...

north of Frøya. The lighthouses include Sula Lighthouse in south, Vingleia Lighthouse, Finnvær Lighthouse, and finally Halten Lighthouse. The lighthouse emits the

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letter "T" (—) as a racon signal. The tall stone lighthouse tower is painted white and it has two black horizontal stripes. The light sits at an elevation of . The light emits a white flash of light every four seconds. It has a luminous intensity of 1,080,000 candela and a visibility of up to . The lighthouse tower was originally planned to build a twin-tower lighthouse with the Lista Lighthouse, but the technical development of lighthouses made this unnecessary so it was dismantled and rebuilt here. A lot of the original interior and exterior are preserved on the lighthouse and the station has been declared a historic preservation site. The station is still in use by the

Norwegian Coastal Administration Norwegian Coastal Administration ( no, Kystverket) is a Norwegian government agency responsible for the water transport infrastructure along the 9,200 km Coast of Norway. It is responsible for coastal navigation infrastructure, pilotage a ...

as a base station.

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Norsk Fyrhistorisk Forening
* Frøya, Trøndelag Lighthouses completed in 1875 Lighthouses in Trøndelag {{Norway-lighthouse-stub

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