Bastøyrenna

Bastøyrenna is a strait in , , . Bastøyrenna is situated nearby to the hamlet , as well as near .

Places of Interest

Highlights include Borre mound cemetery and Bastøy Prison.

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.

Prison
Photo: Grim23, GFDL.
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.

Island
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.

Bastøyrenna

Latitude
59.38916° or 59° 23′ 21″ north
Longitude
10.49507° or 10° 29′ 42″ east
Open location code
9FFG9FQW+M2
Geo­Names ID
12089553
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Satellite Map

Discover Bastøyrenna from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

“Bastøyrenna” goes by many names.
  • Norwegian: “Bastøyrenna”

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