Slettnes Lighthouse

Slettnes Lighthouse is the northernmost mainland lighthouse on Earth. It is located in Gamvik Municipality in county, . It sits along the Barents Sea approximately 3 kilometres north of the village of on the northern coast of the Nordkinn Peninsula, within the Slettnes Nature Reserve.
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  • Building
  • …lies at an elevation of 8 metres (26 feet)
  • …stands 39 metres (128 feet) tall
  • Description: lighthouse on Nordkinn Peninsula, Norway
  • Also known as
    “Sletnes”
    “Sletneset”
    “Slettnes Fyr”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Gamvik Church and Gamvik skole.
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is a parish church of the Church… is situated 3 km south of Slettnes Lighthouse.
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is a school, which is situated 3 km south of Slettnes Lighthouse.

Slettnes Lighthouse

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Latitude
71.08956° or 71° 5′ 22″ north
Longitude
28.21823° or 28° 13′ 6″ east
Open location code
CG3C36Q9+R7
Open­Street­Map ID
way 228886593
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­service
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­lighthouse
Geo­Names ID
777632
Wiki­data ID
Q385142

Satellite Map

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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”
  • 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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