Finnvær Lighthouse is a lighthouse

Lighthouse

A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire, and used as an aid to navigation for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways....

 at Finnværet on the island of Valøya, part of the Froan

Froan

Froan is a populated archipelago in Frøya, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway. The islands lie in the sea about west of the Fosen peninsula. Froan consists of several hundred islands and islets. The islands run for about in a northeasterly direction, parallel to the coastline. Halten lies at the northern...

 islands in the municipality of Frøya in Sør-Trøndelag

Sør-Trøndelag

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 county, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. The lighthouse is located about 40 kilometres (24.9 mi) northeast of the Sula lighthouse

Sula Lighthouse

Sula lighthouse is a lighthouse on the island of Sula in the municipality of Frøya in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The lighthouse was originally built here in 1793 and another in 1804. The current tower was built in 1904. It is part of a series of lighthouses along the municipality of Frøya...

 at Sula

Sula, Sør-Trøndelag

Sula is an island group in the municipality of Frøya in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located about west of Mausund and about northwest of the island of Frøya....

, 25 kilometres (15.5 mi) northeast of Vingleia Lighthouse

Vingleia Lighthouse

The Vingleia Lighthouse is a lighthouse on the island of Skarvfleshølen about north of Mausund in the municipality of Frøya in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located northeast of the Sula Lighthouse, southwest of the Finnvær Lighthouse, and southwest of the Halten Lighthouse....

, and about 18 kilometres (11.2 mi) southwest of the Halten Lighthouse

Halten lighthouse

Halten lighthouse is a lighthouse situated in the now uninhabited fishing village of Halten in the municipality of Frøya in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway...

 at Halten.

In 1985, the lighthouse was automated and the old wooden building was turned in to a museum, and a new fiberglass

Fiberglass

Glass fiber is a material consisting of numerous extremely fine fibers of glass.Glassmakers throughout history have experimented with glass fibers, but mass manufacture of glass fiber was only made possible with the invention of finer machine tooling...

 tower was built. The occulting light in white, red, and green can be seen for 9.6 nmi (17.8 km; 11 mi). The lighthouse is powered by solar power

Solar power

Solar energy, radiant light and heat from the sun, has been harnessed by humans since ancient times using a range of ever-evolving technologies. Solar radiation, along with secondary solar-powered resources such as wind and wave power, hydroelectricity and biomass, account for most of the available...

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