Nordpunkt Lighthouse

The Nordpunkt Lighthouse (Norwegian: Nordpunkt Fyrtårn) is the most easterly of the Vakt Lighthouses. Located on Creig Stim isle of the north coast of Fyrkyrak it has one keeper at any time. Plans to gradually automate the light are in progress.

History
To combat the unusually high shipwrecks that were devastating the local economy, in 1821 it was decided to build a set of three light houses to help guide ships through the traitorous passages. A public petition was set up and combined with funds from the Norwegian crown a set of three lighthouses were to be built. Nordpunkt (English: North Point) was to be the most northerly (hence its name), but after a great storm just two months after opening in 1846 a forth lighthouse was found to be needed off the coast of Skarn, making Nordpunkt the second most northern.