Selbjørn
Sign in to saveSelbjørn is an island in Austevoll Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The island is the second largest in the municipality (after Huftarøy). Most of the population lives along the northern and eastern coastlines of the island. The commercial centre of Selbjørn is the village of Bekkjarvik, where Bekkjarvik Church is located.
Key facts
- Islands.name
- Selbjørn
- Islands.image_name
- Bekkjarvik.jpg
- Islands.image_caption
- View of Bekkjarvik
- Islands.location
- Vestland, Norway
- Islands.mapframe
- yes
- Islands.mapframe zoom
- 9
- Islands.archipelago
- Austevoll
- Islands.area_km2
- 25
- Islands.length_km
- 4.4
- Islands.width_km
- 6.5
- Islands.elevation_m
- 185
- Islands.highest_mount
- Kongsafjellet
- Islands.country
- Norway
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_title
- County
- Islands.country_admin_divisions
- Vestland
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_title_1
- Municipality
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_1
- Austevoll Municipality
- Islands.population
- 956
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Selbjørn is an island in Austevoll Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The island is the second largest in the municipality (after Huftarøy). Most of the population lives along the northern and eastern coastlines of the island. The commercial centre of Selbjørn is the village of Bekkjarvik, where Bekkjarvik Church is located.
==Name== Selbjørn is based on the old Norwegian word meaning the bear in the saddle. The interpretation is that sailors and fishermen used Selbjørn as replacement for a more ancient "Hund" meaning quarry. However, "Hund" is the same as the Norwegian word for dog and "Hund" in the meaning of dog was according to old tradition something not to be mentioned at sea. The result being Salbjorn or Selbjørn as the new word for "Hund" (quarry).
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