Sula Lighthouse ( no, Sula 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.
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in the municipality of
Frøya in
Trøndelag 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.
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is located on the island of
Sula. The lighthouse was originally built here in 1793 and another in 1804. The current tower was built in 1909. It is part of a series of lighthouses along the
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 ...
islands in Frøya including the
Finnvær Lighthouse
Finnvær Lighthouse ( no, Finnvær fyr) is a coastal lighthouse in the municipality of Frøya in Trøndelag county, Norway. The lighthouse is located at Finnværet on the small island of Valøya in the Froan islands. The lighthouse is located a ...
,
Vingleia Lighthouse
Vingleia Lighthouse ( no, Vingleia fyr) is a coastal lighthouse in the municipality of Frøya in Trøndelag county, Norway. The lighthouse sits on the island of Skarvfleshølen about north of the island village of Mausund, about northeast of th ...
, and
Halten Lighthouse
Halten Lighthouse ( no, Halten fyr) is a coastal lighthouse in the municipality of Frøya in Trøndelag county, Norway. The lighthouse is situated in the now uninhabited fishing village of Halten. It was first lit in 1875, and it is the norther ...
. It is lit from July 21 until May 16 each year. It is not lit during the summer due to the
midnight sun of the region.
History
The first light at Sula was built in 1793. The present lighthouse was completed in 1909 and it was automated in 1974. The tall
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
concrete tower is painted white. The light sits at an elevation of above sea level. The white light flashes three times every 30 seconds. The 3,378,000-
candela light can be seen for up to . A 2nd order
Fresnel lens is used for the light.
See also
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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 ...
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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, ...
References
External links
Norsk Fyrhistorisk Forening
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Lighthouses completed in 1793
Lighthouses completed in 1804
Lighthouses completed in 1904
Froan
Lighthouses in Trøndelag
1793 establishments in Norway