Varnes fort is a former German coastal battery in Farsund municipality in Agder , a county and traditional region in the southern part of Norway.
The battery was set up with four 10.5 cm K332 French Canon de 105 L mle 1936 Schneider guns with a firing range of 16,000 m . The two of these guns stood in open positions closer to the water, the other two were in a casemate, which was a large tunnel system by the battery, connected, among other things, to the command tower above this gun position. In addition, there were regular close defense weapons. The battery was a small part of the enormous Western Wall that the Germans built from 1940, along the entire Atlantic coast, from the Arctic Ocean to the Pyrenees, and which they kept occupied to secure against Allied invasion. Along the Norwegian west coast alone, they had built around 300 batteries. Like so many other coastal forts, it never came into battle.
Varnes fort hidden in a cliff which from there you will get an impressive view along the coast of Listalandet, the Fort located A Little East Of Varnes Lighthouse.
Access : Coordinates: / Address: 4560 Vanse, Norway
