Slettnes Lighthouse
Slettnes Lighthouse is the northernmost mainland lighthouse on Earth. It is located in Gamvik Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It sits along the Barents Sea approximately 3 kilometres north of the village of Gamvik on the northern coast of the Nordkinn Peninsula, within the Slettnes Nature Reserve.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: VogelainenMikael, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Building
- Description: lighthouse on Nordkinn Peninsula, Norway
- Also known as: “Sletnes”, “Sletneset”, “Slettnes fyr”, and “Slettnes Fyr”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Gamvik Church and Gamvik skole.
Gamvik Church
Church
Photo: 3s, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gamvik Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Gamvik Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It is located in the village of Gamvik. It is the main church for the Gamvik parish which is part of the Hammerfest prosti in the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland. Gamvik Church is situated 3 km south of Slettnes Lighthouse.
Gamvik skole
School
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Gamvik skole is a school, which is situated 3 km south of Slettnes Lighthouse.
Slettnes Lighthouse
- Category: lighthouse
- Location: Gamvik, Finnmark, Northern Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
71.08956° or 71° 5′ 22″ northLongitude
28.21823° or 28° 13′ 6″ eastElevation
5 metres (16 feet)Height
39 metres (128 feet)Open location code
CG3C36Q9+R7OpenStreetMap ID
way 228886593OpenStreetMap feature
building=serviceOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=lighthouse
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Turkish—“Slettnes Lighthouse” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Sletnes Dəniz Mayakı”
- Catalan: “Far de Slettnes”
- Chinese: “Slettnes灯塔”
- Czech: “Maják Slettnes”
- Danish: “Slettnes fyr”
- Estonian: “Slettnesi tuletorn”
- Finnish: “Slettnesin majakka”
- French: “phare de Slettnes”
- French: “Phare de Slettnes”
- German: “Slettnes fyr”
- Italian: “Faro di Slettnes”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Slettnes fyr”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Slettnes fyrstasjon”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Slettnes fyr”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Slettnes fyrstasjon”
- Norwegian: “Slettnes fyr”
- Norwegian: “Slettnes”
- Swedish: “Slettnes fyr”
- Turkish: “Slettnes Deniz Feneri”
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