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Slettnes Lighthouse (Norwegian: Slettnes fyr) is the northernmost mainland lighthouse on Earth. It is located in Gamvik Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.It sits along the Barents Sea approximately 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) north of the village of Gamvik on the northern coast of the Nordkinn Peninsula, within the Slettnes Nature Reserve.
The following is a sortable, but partial list of active and some decommissioned lighthouses along the Norwegian coastline.. The sequence number follows the convention of listing lighthouses from the coastal border in the south with Sweden around the coast and north to coastal border with Russia.
The northern lights are set to be visible over much of the US this week. Unusual activity on the Sun means that the spectacle – usually limited to areas near the far north and south poles ...
NOAA published a three-day forecast that predicted northern light visibility between Monday, Nov. 18 and Wednesday, Nov. 20. At the time, day one was expected to be the best chance for viewing the ...
While the lights have been spotted in Montana and Wisconsin, and even as far south as Arizona, areas north of the Arctic Circle remain the safest bets for securing the once-in-a-lifetime ...
The coast of Norway is 100,915 kilometres (62,706 mi) long and there have been a total of 212 lighthouses along it, but no more than 154 have ever been operational at the same time. The first, Lindesnes Lighthouse , opened in 1655; the newest Lighthouse, Anda Lighthouse , was finished in 1932.
Spot glaciers by day and the northern lights by night on this 10-day trip from Vancouver in Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska – well-known for aurora borealis sightings.. Highlights include Alaska’s ...
[b] Thus, in the Hessdalen lights plasma, the nitrogen ions will decompose (N + 2 + e − → N + N*) more rapidly than oxygen ions. Only ionic species are transported by ion acoustic waves. Therefore, oxygen ions will dominate in the ejected green light balls in Hessdalen lights, presenting a negative band of O + 2 with electronic transition b ...