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tr."Daymark at Jærens rev. Stainless steel construction erected by landowners, Klepp history team and Jæren's coastal team on 25 August 2004. Height 16.5 meters, weight more than 3 tonnes. The mark has a side edge of four meters. The first marker was erected in 1854 (of wood), the second marker of
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took possession of parts of the site in the 1950s as a target area for bombs and gunfire, and the ornithological station was therefore relocated in the autumn of 1954 about 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) further northeast, to a point near the Reve farms, where it is still located today. Every year
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The shoal is a partly stony sandbar and extends almost 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) to the west in front of the
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is located about 1.8 nautical miles (3.3 km) off the coast at the western end of the shoal, approximately at position 58 ° 45 'N, 5 ° 26' E, for safe passage making. A 16.5 metres (54 ft) high steel mark on
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between 6,000 and 12,000 waders and passerines are caught there, ringed and then released again. Almost 300 different bird species have been observed there since its opening.
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