Bastøy

Bastøy is an in Horten Municipality in county, . The 2.23-square-kilometre island is owned by the government and it has no permanent residents, however, , a minimum-security prison, is located on the island, so there are always temporary residents on the island.
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: island in Horten, Norway
  • Also known as: “Bastö”, “Bastoy”, and “Bastøy Island”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bastøy Prison and Borre mound cemetery.

Prison
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is a low-security, male-only on Bastøy Island, , located in the municipality about 75 km south of . The prison is on a 2.6 km2 island and hosts 115 inmates making it the largest low-security prison in Norway.

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forms part of the Borre National Park at in , . It is home to seven large and 21 smaller burial mounds. Excavations in the 1980s revealed that the oldest mounds date to 600 AD, i.e. prior to the Viking Age.

Church
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is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Horten Municipality in county, . It is located in the village of . It is one of the churches for the Borre parish which is part of the Nord-Jarlsberg prosti in the Diocese of Tunsberg.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Moss.

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is a coastal town and a municipality in county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of . The city of was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 and City in 1720.

Bastøy

Latitude
59.37939° or 59° 22′ 46″ north
Longitude
10.52617° or 10° 31′ 34″ east
Elevation
37 metres (121 feet)
Open location code
9FFG9GHG+QF
Open­Street­Map ID
way 4156895
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
3161975
Wiki­data ID
Q11217461
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Turkish—“Bastøy” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Bastøy”
  • Danish: “Bastøy”
  • French: “Bastøy”
  • French: “Île de Bastøy”
  • German: “Bastøy”
  • Italian: “Bastøy”
  • Japanese: “バストイ島”
  • Low German: “Bastøy”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bastøy Island”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bastøy”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bastøy”
  • Norwegian: “Bastøy”
  • Spanish: “Bastøy”
  • Turkish: “Bastøy”

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