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Väderöbod lighthouse
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Väderöbod is a lighthouse and an island in the southern part of Väderöarna archipelago located in Bohuslän, Sweden.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lighthouse
- Official name
- Väderöbod
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Tanum Municipality
- Body of water
- Skagerrak
- Material used
- reinforced concrete
- Image
- Nya fyren Vaderobod.JPG
- Height
- 19
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- Commons category
- Väderöbod fyr
- light characteristic
- LFl W 8s
- inception
- 1964-01-01
- color
- red
- focal height
- 32
- racon signal
- C
- lighthouse range
- 6.0
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Väderöbod is a lighthouse and an island in the southern part of Väderöarna archipelago located in Bohuslän, Sweden.
== History == The southernmost island of Väderöarna, Guleskär was first chosen for the construction of the lighthouse in 1867. Further inquiries on the spot, however, showed that conditions on Guleskär were such that it was largely impossible to build a lighthouse on the island. The island was barely possible to reach even in good weather conditions. Instead Väderöbod island, just north of Guleskär was chosen for the new lighthouse. The lighthouse, a 19-meter high lattice structure designed by Gustaf von Heidenstam, was commissioned in 1867 and first lit on the night of 23 September that year. The light ran on colza oil. It was updated with a kerosene lamp in 1887, and in 1907 a powerful gas mantle light was installed.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Väderöbod lighthouse” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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