Edøya
Sign in to saveEdøya is an island in Smøla Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The island lies in the Edøyfjorden between the larger islands of Smøla (to the north) and Ertvågsøya and Tustna (to the south). The island played an important political role during the Viking Age. More recently, it was the center of the old Edøy Municipality and the historic Old Edøy Church is located on the island.
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- island
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Smøla Municipality
- Area
- 7.5
- Elevation
- 41
- Body of water
- Edøyfjorden
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Edøya is an island in Smøla Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The island lies in the Edøyfjorden between the larger islands of Smøla (to the north) and Ertvågsøya and Tustna (to the south). The island played an important political role during the Viking Age. More recently, it was the center of the old Edøy Municipality and the historic Old Edøy Church is located on the island.
thumb|left|upright|Edøy Church In 2019, archaeologists from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research, using large-scale high-resolution georadar technology, determined that a long Viking ship was buried near Edøy Church. They estimate the ship's age as over 1,000 years: from the Merovingian or Viking period; the group planned to conduct additional searches in the area. A similar burial was found previously by a NIKU team in 2018, in Gjellestad.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Edøya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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