Værøy Lighthouse ( no, Værøy 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
Værøy Municipality
Værøy is an island municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Lofoten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Sørland on the main island of Værøya. The other village in Værà ...
in
Nordland
Nordland (; smj, Nordlánnda, sma, Nordlaante, sme, Nordlánda, en, Northland) is a county in Norway in the Northern Norway region, the least populous of all 11 counties, bordering Troms og Finnmark in the north, Trøndelag in the south, N ...
county,
Norway. The lighthouse is built on a small peninsula southeast of the village of
Sørland on the island of
Værøya. It was constructed in 1880 and automated in 1984. The lighthouse has not been used since 2008.
History
The tall square, stone tower was built in 1880. The red-topped tower was attached to a white lighthouse keeper's house. The 27,900-
candela light can be seen for up to . The light was lit from dusk to dawn from 4 August until 2 May each year. It was not lit during the summer due to the
midnight sun in the region.
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
LofotenFyr.no- Værøy Lighthouse Webpage
Norsk Fyrhistorisk Forening
Picture of Værøy Lighthouse
Lighthouses completed in 1880
Værøy
Lighthouses in Nordland
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