Kikkert - Varden - Kristiansund, Norway
N 63° 07.001 E 007° 43.145
32V E 435380 N 6999233
Binoculars on the top floor of the old watchtower Varden.
Waymark Code: WM158GF
Location: Møre og Romsdal, Norway
Date Posted: 11/08/2021
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Binoculars on the top floor of the old watchtower Varden. Here you can look at all sides through the many windows. In each window there is a small info sign with distance to the different places that can be seen through binoculars. For example, 994 meters to Reinsfjeldet. There is also a nice view of the city of Kristiansund.
Varden in Kristiansund, is an old watchtower that was to warn of enemy ships during the Napoleonic Wars. Here was the base station for the optical telegraph between Kristiansund and Trondheim.
This tower is a copy of a tower that was in the same place. The first tower on the site was a wooden tower from 1801, which in 1892 was demolished and replaced by a brick tower. This tower was demolished in 1976 and replaced with a replica inaugurated on May 8, 1983.
The Tower is located 78 m above sea level. From the tower there is a 360 degree view with the Nordmørsfjellene as a background, mountains and fjords to the other side and the town of Kristiansund in the foreground. There is also a pair of binoculars at the top of the tower.
The tower is open every day and there is free admission.
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