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Farris
Sign in to saveFarris is a lake on the border of Telemark and Vestfold counties in Norway. The long freshwater moraine-dammed lake is located mostly in Larvik Municipality in Vestfold, but the northwestern part of the lake is located in Siljan Municipality and Porsgrunn Municipality in Telemark. The large town of Larvik is located at the southern end of the lake.
Key facts
- Body of water.name
- Farris
- Body of water.image
- Farrisvannet2.jpg
- Body of water.caption
- View of the lake from the Gopledal vannverk
- Body of water.pushpin_map
- Norway Telemark#Norway Vestfold#Norway
- Body of water.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Body of water.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of the lake
- Body of water.location
- Telemark and Vestfold
- Body of water.type
- Moraine-dammed lake
- Body of water.basin_countries
- Norway
- Body of water.islands
- Bjørnøya
- Body of water.reference
- NVE
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- reservoir
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Siljan Municipality
- Area
- 0.818498
- Elevation
- 23
- Image
- Farrisvannet2.jpg
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- Commons category
- Farris
- basin country
- Norway
- watershed area
- 490.84
- vertical depth
- 120
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Farris is a lake on the border of Telemark and Vestfold counties in Norway. The long freshwater moraine-dammed lake is located mostly in Larvik Municipality in Vestfold, but the northwestern part of the lake is located in Siljan Municipality and Porsgrunn Municipality in Telemark. The large town of Larvik is located at the southern end of the lake.
The lake would have been part of the saltwater Larviksfjorden, had it not been dammed by an end moraine left by the latest ice age. That moraine is about wide, separating the lake from the sea. There is a short river that runs through the moraine which drains the lake into the fjord. The lake Farris is a drinking water reservoir for about 170,000 people in the region.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Farris” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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