Halten 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....

 situated in the now uninhabited fishing village of Halten

Halten, Sør Trøndelag

Halten is an old fishing village constituted of several uninhabited islands in the municipality of Frøya in Sør Trøndelag county, Norway. Halten is located at the northern end of the Froan islands and constitute the northernmost part of the string of islands north of Frøya, which stretch from Sula...

 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...

. It was established in 1875, and is the northernmost part of the chain of lighthouses in the string of islands called 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...

 north of Frøya, starting with 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...

 in south, through 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 Finnvær lighthouse

Finnvær Lighthouse

Finnvær Lighthouse is a lighthouse at Finnværet on the island of Valøya, part of the Froan islands in the municipality of Frøya in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway...

 and finally Halten lighthouse. The 29.5 metres (96.8 ft) tall lighthouse tower is made of rock, which was moved from the Lista lighthouse. It was originally planned to build a twin-tower lighthouse, but the technical development of lighthouses made this unnecessary. It has a luminous intensity of 1,080,000 candela

Candela

The candela is the SI base unit of luminous intensity; that is, power emitted by a light source in a particular direction, weighted by the luminosity function . A common candle emits light with a luminous intensity of roughly one candela...

 and a visibility of 17.5 nmi (32.4 km; 20.1 mi).

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 Norwegian Coastal Administration

Norwegian Coastal Administration

Norwegian Coastal Administration is a Norwegian government agency responsible for the water transport infrastructure along the 92,000 km Coast of Norway. It is responsible for coastal navigation infrastructure, pilotage and harbour and port infrastructure, including lighthouses...

as a base station.