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5 June 2015 - Lighthouses

Kvitsøy Lighthouse, Rogaland was established in 1700, automated in 1969. Outside of Stavanger is a lighthouse that for more than 300 years has made it safer to sail into the city.

Work on the 18 m tower in the wall that is depicted on the stamp was started in 1827. The lighthouse on the island of Kvitsøy first received electricity in 1939. The lighthouse is an important cultural monument in Kvitsøy Municipality.

NK 1910
Kvitsøy Lighthouse

Lindesnes Lighthouse, Vest-Agder
Established in 1655, automated in 2003. After a humble beginning in 1656 with thirty large tallow candles, the decision was made in 1723 to raise a lighthouse both at Lindesnes and a little further west on the island of Markøy. The result was two large coal-fired fires that would be visible from the water. Lindesnes Lighthouse is today a 16 m high cast iron tower that was built in 1915. In the summer of 2004 a cultural centre was blasted out of the mountain beside Lindesnes Lighthouse. Its opening marked the celebration of Lindesnes Lighthouse as the Thousand-Year Site in Vest-Agder County and the start of the project to turn the oldest lighthouse in the country into a national lighthouse museum.

NK 1912
Lindesnes Lighthouse

Slåtterøy Lighthouse, Hordaland
Established in 1859, automated in 2003. Slåtterøy in Bømlo Municipality was built to improve the safety of the waterway into Bergen from the south. This tower, which is more than 25 m high ,is made of cast iron. During World War II, Slåtterøy Lighthouse was a target of the Allied forces. One of the daughters of the lighthouse keeper died from the injuries she sustained during one of these attacks in 1940.

NK 1911
Slåtterøy Lighthouse

Kjeungskjæret Lighthouse, Sør-Trøndelag
Established in 1880, automated in 1987. Outside of Ørlandet, an octagonal tower of red brick rises up out of the sea. The lighthouse is actually standing on a tiny island at the edge of the Kjeungan Islands. This island is flooded during high tide, and it must have been quite a challenge for those building the tower in 1879. The first tower had three stories, and three meters were added in 1906.

NK 1913
Kjeungskjæret Lighthouse

Facts

NK 1910-1913
Date of issue: 5 June 2015
Values and subjects: A Europe: Kvitsøy Lighthouse
A Europe: Slåtterøy Lighthouse
A Worldwide: Lindesnes Lighthouse
A Worldwide: Kjeungskjæret Lighthouse
Photo: © Helge Sunde / Samfoto (NK 1910, 1911, 1913), © Inger Sandved Anfinsen (NK 1912)
Design: Inger Sandved Anfinsen
Method of printing: Offset
Printing house: Joh. Enschedé Security Print