Bastøy Landskapsvernområde

Bastøy Landskapsvernområde is a locality in , , . Bastøy Landskapsvernområde is situated nearby to the locality , as well as near the hamlet .

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bastøy Prison and Bastøy.

Prison
Photo: Grim23, GFDL.
is a low-security, male-only prison 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.

Island
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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.

Photo: Wolfmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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. is situated 3 km west of Bastøy Landskapsvernområde.

Bastøy Landskapsvernområde

Latitude
59.37607° or 59° 22′ 34″ north
Longitude
10.52018° or 10° 31′ 13″ east
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
Open location code
9FFG9GGC+C3
Geo­Names ID
12089551
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In Other Languages

“Bastøy Landskapsvernområde” goes by many names.
  • Norwegian: “Bastøy Landskapsvernområde”

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