Tranøy Lighthouse () is a

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Hamarøy Municipality or is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Nordland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway, traditional district of Salten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Oppeid ...

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county,

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. It is located along the

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, about west of the village of Tranøy.

History

The lighthouse here was originally built in 1864 and in 1991 the light was automated. The lighthouse has a white, red, or green light (depending on direction) that is

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three times every 10 seconds. The 27-metre (89 ft) round cast iron tower is painted red with one white horizontal band. The site includes a complete and well-preserved light station, including a -story duplex keeper's house, generator house, boathouse, and farm buildings. The present lighthouse was built in 1914 as the Moholmen Lighthouse in

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, but it was relocated here in 1936 and Moholmen was replaced by a shorter tower. Beginning in 1993, the Tranøy lighthouse station has been developed as a

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. The site has views across the

to the high mountains of the

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islands. Tranøy Lighthouse is accessible by road, with a

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that leads to the

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External links

Norsk Fyrhistorisk Forening
* Lighthouses completed in 1864 Lighthouses completed in 1914 Hamarøy Lighthouses in Nordland Listed lighthouses in Norway {{Norway-lighthouse-stub

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