Halten Lighthouse () is a

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Frøya Municipality Frøya is the westernmost List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Trøndelag Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Fosen Districts of Norway, region and consists of the Frøya (island), island of Frøya, which lies nor ...

Trøndelag Trøndelag (; or is a county and coextensive with the Trøndelag region (also known as ''Midt-Norge'' or ''Midt-Noreg,'' "Mid-Norway") in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County (); in 1804 the county was ...

county,

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. The

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is situated in the now uninhabited

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Halten Halten is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Wasseramt (district), Wasseramt in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Solothurn (canton), Solothurn in Switzerland. History Halten is first mentioned in 1201 as ''Hal ...

. 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 Frøya Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. Geography Froan consists of several hundred islands and islets that lie in the sea about west of the Fosen peninsul ...

north of Frøya. The lighthouses include

Sula Lighthouse Sula Lighthouse () is a coastal lighthouse in Frøya Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The lighthouse 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 ...

in south, Vingleia Lighthouse,

Finnvær Lighthouse Finnvær Lighthouse () is a coastal lighthouse in Frøya Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The lighthouse is located at Finnværet on the small island of Valøya in the Froan islands. The lighthouse is located about northeast of the Sul ...

, and finally Halten Lighthouse. The lighthouse emits the

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letter "T" (—) as a

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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

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and a visibility of up to . The lighthouse tower was originally planned to build a twin-tower lighthouse with the

Lista Lighthouse Lista Lighthouse () is a coastal lighthouse located at the western side of the Lista peninsula, a short distance northwest of the village of Vestbygd in the municipality of Farsund in Agder county, Norway. The lighthouse sits on a cape on the ...

, 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

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as a base station.

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Norsk Fyrhistorisk Forening
* {{authority control Frøya, Trøndelag Lighthouses completed in 1875 Lighthouses in Trøndelag

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