Fosnavåg
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is a town in Herøy Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is the administrative center of the municipality. The town is located on the island of Bergsøya, and it includes the Eggesbønes area on the south side of the island.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Fosnavåg
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town/City
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Fosnavaag 2005.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- View of the town
- Settlement.mapframe
- yes
- Settlement.mapframe zoom
- 9
- Settlement.mapframe marker
- town
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Møre og Romsdal#Norway
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Norway
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Western Norway
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Møre og Romsdal
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Sunnmøre
- Settlement.subdivision_type4
- Municipality
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- administrative centre
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Herøy Municipality
- Population
- 3710
- Area
- 3.11
- Elevation
- 3
- Capital of
- Herøy Municipality
- Image
- Fosnavaag 2005.jpg
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- Commons category
- Fosnavåg
- located in/on physical feature
- Bergsøya
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Economy
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- References
is a town in Herøy Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is the administrative center of the municipality. The town is located on the island of Bergsøya, and it includes the Eggesbønes area on the south side of the island.
Fosnavåg is connected to the nearby village of Kvalsund on the island of Nerlandsøya via the Nerlandsøy Bridge to the west. Fosnavåg is connected to the east by a small bridge to the island of Leinøya, which in turn is connected to the islands of Remøya and Runde via the Remøy Bridge and Runde Bridge. The village of Eggesbønes lies south of the town along the shore of the Herøyfjorden, just north of the Flåværet islands and the Flåvær Lighthouse. The large island of Gurskøya lies south of Fosnavåg.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fosnavåg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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