Lindesnes Lighthouse (Lindesnes Fyr).
The lighthouse was first built in 1656 to provide access to the Skagerrak and the Baltic Sea from the North Sea. Several times over the centuries a new lighthouse was built or rebuilt to replace the older one. In 1822 the lighthouse received a coal lamp, in 1854 a new lamp was installed with the current lens. The current tower was realized in 1915. Five years later, it received its first fog signal in the form of a siren. The fog signal and associated machinery were placed in a building next to the tower.
The current 16.1-meter-high lighthouse is made of cast iron with a granite foundation. The lower part is painted white, the upper part red. The light is located at a height of 50.1 meters and emits a fixed and flashing white light that is always on. It rotates between a low-intensity light and a high-intensity light every 20 seconds. This light comes from a first-order fresnel lens that can be seen up to 17.7 nautical miles (32.8 km).
Netherlands
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Germany
Germany
Netherlands
Netherlands
Netherlands
Germany
Netherlands
Netherlands
Netherlands
Netherlands