The lighthouse is situated in the now uninhabited fishing village of Halten.

It was first lit in 1875, and it is the northernmost of the chain of lighthouses marking the string of islands called Froan north of Frøya.

The lighthouse emits the morse code letter "T" (—) as a racon signal.

[1] The 29.5-metre (97 ft) tall stone lighthouse tower is painted white and it has two black horizontal stripes.

It has a luminous intensity of 1,080,000 candela and a visibility of up to 17.5 nautical miles (32.4 km; 20.1 mi).