Ingøy

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Ingøy ( Sami: Fávle - Izzat ) is an island 60 kilometers west of the North Cape, in the Norwegian municipality Måsøy in Finnmark. Ingøy has an area of 18.1 km ², the highest point on the island is the Mafjordfjell with 332 moh .. The island has about 25 inhabitants.

On the island Ingøy located since 2000, a long-wave transmitter of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation ( NRK). As a transmitting antenna a 362 meter high guyed steel lattice mast is used.

It is the tallest structure in Scandinavia and is fed similar to the transmitter Donebach on the backstays with the radiated RF energy. As in Donebach is the radiated frequency 153 kHz, which greatly complicates the reception of this transmitter in Germany and in German-speaking countries. The transmission power used is less than 100 kilowatts in Donebach and, since only a transmission tower in Ingøy exists only be sent in the omni-directional mode.

Ingøy not only has a long wave transmitter mast fyr also Fruholmen, the world's most northern, working lighthouse.