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Would love to know why Norway has so many lighthouses / "blinking beacons". Wikipedia lists many [0], but not as many as shown.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lighthouses_in_Norway

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It's because Norway made a conscious decision to maintain its lighthouses.

It's done to preserve the cultural legacy as the majority of lighthouses are obsolete.

Most lighthouses are cultural and historical icons, and they often faithfully reproduce the best technology of an era. Moreover, even if obsolete, most are wonderful architectural objects.

I can only applaud Norway's decision to preserve its cultural legacy. Shame others aren't as proactive.

The lighthouse in my town on Lake Michigan is preserved.

They had to cut a floor out of the building to restore it to historical condition when the Coast Guard moved out. Cracks me up.

(it had been in use as the base commander's residence)

That's good, at least sense prevailed and it's preserved.

It seems to include a lot of sector lights. Here is the nautical chart: https://norgeskart.no/#!?project=norgeskart&layers=1008

-That it does, I zoomed in on my local area (I can see five sector lights just from my office window on the northwestern coast of Norway - they're all over the place!) - all are present in the map.

I love this map; would be even better if one could set opacity for the lights so that it is simpler to see the coastline details, though.

Isn't a sector light a type of lighthouse?

Maybe they just have provided more detailed data? Then again, Norway has a very rugged coast which is used a lot.

I was going to suggest it might have something to do with all of the fiddly bits that were a favorite of Slartibartfast.

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