Norway has a LOT of lighthouses. Just checking the front page of the Lighthouse Directory will confirm that, because it has a large number of regional sections of Norway to deal with all of them.
That means there are many to choose from, and I chose this one: Rivingen. It's perched on some hard rocks on a small island, and it's actually a 2-for-1, with a new little lighthouse in front of the older building.
This is the location (near Grimstad). It's also on the wide opening of the Skagerrak, the water passageway to the Baltic Sea.
So there's two descriptions.
The old one:
"1886. Inactive since 1925. Approx. 8 m (26 ft) square cylindrical tower with a sharply pyramidal roof and a spire, attached to the front of a 1-1/2 story keeper's house. Building painted white; the tower roof is a dark maroon metallic. ... The active light stands in front of the house, which is now a private summer residence."
The new one:
"1925 (station established 1886). Inactive since 2022. 5 m (17 ft) square wood tower with lantern and gallery, painted white; lantern roof painted red."
The pictures are below, and there are some good ones. And there's one strange thing; in the last picture, the little lighthouse is gone. The last picture was taken from a boat (the site is called "Boatview"), and fairly recently, in 2022. Did it get taken down or knocked off the rocks by a big wave? I don't know.
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