Bastøy
Bastøy is an island in Horten Municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The 2.23-square-kilometre island is owned by the government and it has no permanent residents, however, Bastøy Prison, a minimum-security prison, is located on the island, so there are always temporary residents on the island.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- 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.
Bastøy Prison
Prison
Bastøy Prison is a low-security, male-only prison on Bastøy Island, Norway, located in the Horten municipality about 75 km south of Oslo. The prison is on a 2.6 km2 island and hosts 115 inmates making it the largest low-security prison in Norway.
Borre mound cemetery
Photo: Wolfmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Borre mound cemetery forms part of the Borre National Park at Horten in Vestfold, Norway. 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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Moss.
Moss
Photo: Douglaspperkins, CC BY 4.0.
Moss is a coastal town and a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Moss. The city of Moss was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 and City in 1720.
Bastøy
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Horten, Vestfold, East Norway, Alvdal, Innlandet, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
59.37939° or 59° 22′ 46″ northLongitude
10.52617° or 10° 31′ 34″ eastElevation
37 metres (121 feet)Open location code
9FFG9GHG+QFOpenStreetMap ID
way 4156895OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
3161975Wikidata ID
Q11217461
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Satellite Map
Discover Bastøy from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Birkely and Søndre Vold.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Prison library and Bastøy Prison.
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