Bastøy 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.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Bastøy and Borre mound cemetery.
Bastøy
Island
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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.
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. Borre mound cemetery is situated 3 km west of Bastøy Prison.
Rørestrand
Beach
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Rørestrand is a beach, which is situated 3 km northwest of Bastøy Prison.
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 Prison
- Type: Prison
- Description: prison
- Category: government building
- Location: Horten, Vestfold, East Norway, Alvdal, Innlandet, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
59.37945° or 59° 22′ 46″ northLongitude
10.52624° or 10° 31′ 35″ eastOpen location code
9FFG9GHG+QFOpenStreetMap ID
way 525782646OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=prisonWikidata ID
Q1568164
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Swedish—“Bastøy Prison” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Բաստեյ բանտ”
- Cebuano: “Bastøy”
- Dutch: “Bastoy”
- Dutch: “Bastøy”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سجن باستوى”
- Finnish: “Bastøy”
- French: “prison de Bastøy”
- French: “Prison de Bastøy”
- German: “Bastøy”
- German: “Haftanstalt Bastøy”
- Indonesian: “Penjara Bastøy”
- Italian: “Prigione di Bastøy”
- Japanese: “バストイ刑務所”
- Japanese: “バストイ島”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bastøy fengsel”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bastøy landsfengsel”
- Norwegian: “Bastøy fengsel”
- Polish: “Bastøy”
- Portuguese: “Prisão de Bastoy”
- Spanish: “Prisión de Bastøy”
- Swedish: “Bastöy”
- Swedish: “Bastøy”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Prison library and Bastøy Prison.
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