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Vesterålen
Sign in to saveVesterålen ( , ; ) is a district and archipelago in Nordland county, Norway. It is located just north of Lofoten and west of Harstad. It is the northernmost part of Nordland county. Sortland is the largest town, situated near the center of the archipelago. Vesterålen includes the municipalities of Andøy, Bø, Hadsel, Sortland, and Øksnes.
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- Vesterålen
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- 250px
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- Nordland#Norway
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- Vesterålen
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- left
- Islands.archipelago
- Vesterålen archipelago
- Islands.major_islands
- Langøya, Hinnøya, Andøya, Hadseløya
- Islands.area_km2
- 2511
- Islands.country
- Norway
- Islands.population
- 30,419
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Vesterålen ( , ; ) is a district and archipelago in Nordland county, Norway. It is located just north of Lofoten and west of Harstad. It is the northernmost part of Nordland county. Sortland is the largest town, situated near the center of the archipelago. Vesterålen includes the municipalities of Andøy, Bø, Hadsel, Sortland, and Øksnes.
==Name== The Old Norse forms of the name were ' and ' (plural). The first element is ' which means "west" and the last element is ' which means "(deep and narrow) sound" or "strait". The name describes the seaway west of the island of Hinnøya. Similarly, the old name of the seaway east of Hinnøya (now called Tjeldsundet) might have been '' (meaning "the eastern sound/strait").
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vesterålen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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