Sandefjord

To the southeast of Tønsberg, off the main road, is Sandefjord (pop. 35,000), on the fjord of that name. A former whaling port, it is now a seaside resort, with a Whaling Museum and a Seafaring Museum. On the harbor, which is the base of a modern merchant fleet, can be seen a monument to the whalers by Knut Steen. Good bathing and sailing. At the south end of the island of Østerøy is a beacon, the Tønsberg Tønne. To the east of Sandefjord is the Gokstad mound, under which the Gokstad Ship (now in the Viking Ships Museum in Oslo) was found in 1880.