The Kingdom of Norway (Norge in Norwegian) is one of the world's most maritime nations. The
country is long and narrow with drowned valleys called fjords that bring
the sea far inland in most regions. The mainland coast is estimated to
be 2650 km (1650 mi) long and when all the islands and minor indentations
are counted the total coastline approaches an astonishing 60,000 km (37,500
mi), long enough the go around the world one and a half times. With such
a lengthy and rocky shore it's not surprising that Norway has a large
number of lighthouses.
Norway is divided into 15 counties (fylker) and the counties are divided into townships (kommuner). This page lists lighthouses of the former county of Vest-Agder,
at the southern tip of Norway facing the entrance to the Skaggerak from the North Sea. Kristiansand,
in the southeastern corner of the county, is the principal port. On 1 January 2020 the counties of Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder were combined to form Agder county.
In Norwegian a lighthouse is a fyrtårn (fire tower) or simply a fyr; a fyrlykt is a beacon and a lyktehus is a lantern. Øy is an island, holmen is an islet, skjær is a skerry (a tiny island or rocky reef), sund is a strait (often between an island and the mainland), bukt is a bay, nes is a headland, and havn is a harbor.
Aids to
navigation in Norway are maintained by the Kystverket (Coast Directorate), an agency of the Ministry of Transport.
ARLHS numbers are from the ARLHS
World List of Lights. NF numbers are from the Norsk
Fyrliste. Admiralty numbers are from volume B of the Admiralty
List of Lights & Fog Signals. U.S. NGA List numbers are from Publication
115.
- General Sources
- Online List of
Lights - Norway - Skagerrak, South Coast, and Southwest Coast
- Photos by various photographers, posted by Alexander Trabas. Many of these
photos were taken by Ronald Wöhrn.
- Norwegian Lighthouse Association
- News and photos from the Association.
- Leuchtturmseiten
von Anke und Jens - Südnorwegen
- Excellent 2002 photos posted by two German lighthouse fans.
- Lighthouses in Agder
- Photos by various photographers available from Wikimedia.
- World of Lighthouses - Norway
- Photos by various photographers available from Lightphotos.net.
- Norwegische
Leuchttürme auf historischen Postkarten
- Historic postcard images posted by Klaus Huelse.
- Norsk Fyrliste
- Current edition of the Norwegian light list.
- Liste
over Norske Fyr
- From Norwegian Wikipedia, a handy list of Norwegian light stations with
their dates of establishment.
- GPSNauticalCharts
- Navigational chart information for southern Norway.
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Grønningen Light, Kristiansand, June 2018
Google Maps photo
by Millars
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