Møysalen
Sign in to saveMøysalen is a mountain in Nordland county, Norway. It is located on the border of Sortland Municipality and Lødingen Municipality. At tall, it is the highest mountain on the island of Hinnøya and the second highest mountain on any island in Norway. The mountain is located within Møysalen National Park, about straight east of the villages of Hennes and Kaldjorda in Hadsel Municipality.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Møysalen
- Mountain.photo
- Moeysalen-2020.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Møysalen seen from south-west
- Mountain.mapframe zoom
- 9
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- Interactive map of the mountain
- Mountain.location
- Nordland, Norway
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 1262
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 1262
- Mountain.topo
- and
- Mountain.listing
- 17 in Norway by prominence
- Mountain.translation
- "The Maidens' Hall" or "The Maidens' Saddle"
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mountain
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Lødingen Municipality
- Elevation
- 1263.2
- Image
- Moysalen.JPG
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- topographic prominence
- 1263
- Commons category
- Møysalen
- topographic isolation
- 61.5
- mountain range
- Scandinavian Mountains
- located in/on physical feature
- Hinnøya
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Møysalen is a mountain in Nordland county, Norway. It is located on the border of Sortland Municipality and Lødingen Municipality. At tall, it is the highest mountain on the island of Hinnøya and the second highest mountain on any island in Norway. The mountain is located within Møysalen National Park, about straight east of the villages of Hennes and Kaldjorda in Hadsel Municipality.
==Name== The name derives from the Norwegian words , which translates to maiden, and , which can be translated into either saddle or hall. South of the peak is two smaller peaks, named Lille Møya (The Small Maiden) and Store Møya (The Big Maiden), which according to local folklore were two troll maidens that were turned into stone. Møysalen is either the saddle or the roof of the hall of these two maidens.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Møysalen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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