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Nordland
Bodø

Saltstraumen Tidal Current – Brøtt Lighthouse loop from Saltstraumen

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Norway
Nordland
Bodø

Saltstraumen Tidal Current – Brøtt Lighthouse loop from Saltstraumen

Easy

4.2

(11)

99

hikers

Saltstraumen Tidal Current – Brøtt Lighthouse loop from Saltstraumen

00:58

3.67km

30m

Hiking

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: March 28, 2026

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Your route passes through protected areas

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Saltstraumen marine verneområde

Waypoints

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Start point

Bus stop

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1

581 m

Red Wooden House on Stilts

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Striking red stilt house, great photo opportunity... the house also looks great in pictures from the bridge

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976 m

About 30 kilometers from Bodø lies the world's largest maelstrom, the Saltstraumen. Enormous masses of water are forced from an 80-kilometer-long fjord into a 2.5-kilometer-long and approximately 150-meter-wide strait, which …

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981 m

Saltstraumen Tidal Current

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The Saltstraumen has existed for about three thousand years.

Here, water speeds reach up to 20 knots (35 km/h), and every six hours up to 400 million cubic meters of …

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995 m

Brøtt Lighthouse

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Beacon at the strongest tidal current in the world.

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2.57 km

Saltstraumen Maelstrom

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8

3.56 km

Saltstraumen Tidal Current Table

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The current table can be viewed on site, or even better, it can be accessed online for planning purposes.
saltstraumen.info/Velkommen/saltstraumtabellen

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3.67 km

End point

Bus stop

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Way Types & Surfaces

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2.30 km

802 m

495 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

1.31 km

743 m

517 m

513 m

450 m

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