Børøyholmen Lighthouse is a lighthouse

Lighthouse

A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire, and used as an aid to navigation for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways....

 in the municipality of Hitra

Hitra

Hitra is a municipality and an island in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The municipality covers the island of Hitra and several smaller islands, and is part of the Fosen region...

 in Sør-Trøndelag

Sør-Trøndelag

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 county, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. The lighthouse is located in the Trondheimsleia

Trondheimsleia

The Trondheimsleia is a strait that runs between the islands of Smøla and Hitra and the mainland municipalities of Aure, Hemne, Snillfjord, and Agdenes in Møre og Romsdal and Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The long strait has several fjords which branch off it including the Ramsøyfjorden,...

 in the entrance to the Kråkvågfjorden on a tiny island off the shore of the village of Hestvika

Hestvika

Hestvika is a village in the municipality of Hitra in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located on the southeastern tip of the island of Hitra along the Trondheimsleia, about east of Sandstad and the Hitra Tunnel...

 on Hitra island. The old lighthouse was closed in 1970 and a new automated lighthouse was built alongside it.

The 10 metres (32.8 ft) lighthouse has an occulting light with white, red, and green lights. The light can be seen for about 10 nmi (18.5 km; 11.5 mi).