Vestfjorden
Sign in to saveVestfjorden (; sometimes shortened to Vestfjord in English) is a long fjord or oceanic sea in Nordland county, Norway.
Key facts
- Body of water.name
- Vestfjorden
- Body of water.image
- Map-of-Lofoten-and-Vesteraalen.svg
- Body of water.caption
- Map of the fjord
- Body of water.location
- Nordland county, Norway
- Body of water.mapframe
- yes
- Body of water.mapframe zoom
- 5
- Body of water.mapframe caption
- Interactive map of the fjord
- Body of water.basin_countries
- Norway
- Body of water.type
- Fjord
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- fjord
- Part of
- Norwegian Sea
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Nordland
- Image
- Brennviksanden.jpg
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- Vestfjorden
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Vestfjorden (; sometimes shortened to Vestfjord in English) is a long fjord or oceanic sea in Nordland county, Norway.
The name literally means "the west fjord", although it is called a fjord, it could best be described as a firth or an open bight of sea. The "fjord" lies between the Lofoten archipelago and the Salten district of mainland Norway. The term fjord (from the old Norse meaning firth or inlet) is used in a more general way for bodies of water in the western Scandinavian languages than the more narrow usage commonly used in English.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vestfjorden” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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