Ørstafjorden
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Ørstafjorden is a fjord in Ørsta Municipality in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. The long fjord runs from the village of Ørsta to the Vartdalsfjorden. The fjord is about wide and the deepest point in the fjord reaches below sea level. The European route E39 highway runs along the eastern and southern shores of the fjord. The southern entrance to the Eiksund Tunnel is located along the western shore of the fjord. The inner parts of the fjord do freeze when there are extended periods of cold weather in the winters.
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Vinony's link graph records 7 inbound references to Ørstafjorden, and connects out to discharge, Norway and geographic coordinate system.
The entry is geolocated on the map in waterbody, across 2 mapped points.
Vinony files it under Fjords of Møre og Romsdal and Ørsta Municipality.
Vinony links it to 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- fjord
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Ørsta Municipality
- Image
- Ørstafjorden.jpg
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- Norway
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Ørstafjorden is a fjord in Ørsta Municipality in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. The long fjord runs from the village of Ørsta to the Vartdalsfjorden. The fjord is about wide and the deepest point in the fjord reaches below sea level. The European route E39 highway runs along the eastern and southern shores of the fjord. The southern entrance to the Eiksund Tunnel is located along the western shore of the fjord. The inner parts of the fjord do freeze when there are extended periods of cold weather in the winters.
==See also== List of Norwegian fjords
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ørstafjorden” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations