Lindesnes. Panorama of the Coast

This swivel camera, on the edge of Norway, is installed in the museum of the Lindesnes lighthouse. The lighthouse can be seen when the camera turns to the right.

The coastal lighthouse, on the southernmost point of continental Norway, was built in the middle of the seventeenth century and is the oldest structure of this type.

It is the main attraction of the entire Vest-Agder county. About one hundred thousand tourists, from all over the world, come here annually.

We are on Cape Lindesnes, which used to play an important role in navigation between the rocky coasts of Norway and the sandy coastline of Denmark. But shipwrecks happened here regularly and, in 1655, a decision was made to build a lighthouse. The Lindesnes lighthouse worked in conjunction with a lighthouse on Märket Island, so that crews of ships did not confuse it with the Skagen lighthouse in Jutland.

The museum from which we are looking at the rocky shores of Lindesnes was opened in 2004 and tells its visitors, in detail, about the history of the famous lighthouse. The lighthouse has been open to visitors since 1992, after a large-scale restoration.