The Kjeungskjær Lighthouse ( no, Kjeungskjær 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
Ørland
Ørland is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Fosen region. Ørland is located at the southwestern tip of the Fosen peninsula at the northern shore of the mouth of Trondheimsfjord where the Stjørnfjorden arm begins. ...
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. The lighthouse is located on a tiny island at the mouth of the
Bjugnfjorden
The Bjugnfjorden is a fjord in Ørland Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The long fjord begins at the village of Botngård and it heads to the west past the Kjeungskjær Lighthouse into the Atlantic Ocean. Other villages along the fjor ...
about west of the village of
Uthaug
Uthaug is a village in the municipality of Ørland in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located on the south shore of the Bjugnfjorden about west of the village of Opphaug, about north of the town of Brekstad, and about east of the Kjeungskj ...
and south of the village of
Nes
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in
Bjugn
Bjugn is a former municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1853 until its dissolution in 2020 when it was merged into Ørland Municipality. It was part of the Fosen region. The village of Botngård was the adminis ...
municipality.
Description
The lighthouse was built in 1880 and automated in 1987. Prior to being automated, the lighthouse keeper and his family lived on the lower floors of the building.
The tall lighthouse is made of stone with an
octagon
In geometry, an octagon (from the Greek ὀκτάγωνον ''oktágōnon'', "eight angles") is an eight-sided polygon or 8-gon.
A '' regular octagon'' has Schläfli symbol and can also be constructed as a quasiregular truncated square, t, whi ...
al-shaped tower that is painted red. The 14,400-
candela
The candela ( or ; symbol: cd) is the unit of luminous intensity in the International System of Units (SI). It measures luminous power per unit solid angle emitted by a light source in a particular direction. Luminous intensity is analogous to ...
light sits at the top at an elevation of above sea level. The 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 6 seconds. There is a
fresnel
Augustin-Jean Fresnel (10 May 1788 – 14 July 1827) was a French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory of light, excluding any remnant of Newton's corpuscular the ...
lens that has been in use since 1906. It can be seen for up to . The lighthouse is lit every year from July 21 until May 16. It is dark during the late spring and early summer months due to the
midnight sun
The midnight sun is a natural phenomenon that occurs in the summer months in places north of the Arctic Circle or south of the Antarctic Circle, when the Sun remains visible at the local midnight. When the midnight sun is seen in the Arctic, t ...
.
Kjeungskjær Lighthouse Gallery
Kjeungskjær Fyr.jpg,
Hurtigruten 20150320 144852.jpg,
Lighthouse at Kjeungskjaer 01.jpg,
Kjeungskjær fyr vedlikehald.jpg,
Kjeungskjær Lighthouse The Fresnel lenses.tif,
Kjeungskjæret.jpg,
Kjeungskjær.jpg,
2016-11-13 02 Kjeungskjær Lighthouse, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway.jpg,
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
Video of Kjeungskjær fyr*
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Lighthouses completed in 1880
Ørland
Lighthouses in Trøndelag