Lurøy Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Nordland
- District
- Helgeland
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Onøya
- Mayor 2019
- Håkon Lund ( H )
- Total
- 265.16 km (102.38 sq mi)
- Land
- 258.11 km (99.66 sq mi)
- Water
- 7.04 km (2.72 sq mi) 2.7%
- Rank
- # 275 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,172.7 m (3,847 ft)
- Density
- 7.1/km (18/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −0.8%
- Demonym
- Lurøyværing
- Norwegian form
- Bokmål
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- lurøyværing
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Nordland
- Capital
- Onøya
- Population
- 1953
- Area
- 0.09
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Træna Municipality
- Official website
- www.luroy.kommune.no
- Image
- Luroey-Winter-from-Northeast.jpg
- Households
- 47
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- Commons category
- Lurøy
- topic's main category
- Category:Lurøy
- language used
- Bokmål
- inception
- 1837-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Lurøy is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Helgeland traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is located on the island of Onøya. Other villages in Lurøy include Aldra, Haugland, Konsvikosen, Lovund, Lurøy, Sleneset / Solværøyene, Stokkvågen, and Tonnes.
The municipality is located on the coast just south of the Arctic Circle, on the western edge of the Saltfjellet mountain range. The Lurøygården (Lurøy Farm) on the island of Lurøya is a more-than-200-year-old renaissance garden with old plants, a pool, and a nearly 20-metre (66 ft) high Copper Beech.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lurøy Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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