Bostrak or Bustrak is a village in

Drangedal Municipality Drangedal is a municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Grenland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Prestestranda. Other villages in Drangedal include Bø i Tørdal, B ...

Telemark Telemark () is a Counties of Norway, county and a current electoral district in Norway. Telemark borders the counties of Vestfold, Buskerud, Vestland, Rogaland and Agder. In 2020, Telemark merged with the county of Vestfold to form the county o ...

county,

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. The village is located near the western shore of the lake Bjorvann in the

Tørdal Tørdal is a valley and parish that makes up the northern third of Drangedal Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. Tørdal is centered around the village of Bø where the Tørdal Church is located. Another village in the valley is Bustrak. ...

area of northern Drangedal. The village of Bø i Tørdal lies about to the northwest, the village of

Gautefall Gautefall (also known as Gautefallheia) is a mountain village in Drangedal Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. The village is located in the mountains about southwest of the village of Bustrak (in Drangedal) and about northeast of the vil ...

lies about to the west, and the village of Prestestranda lies about to the east.

Notable people

*Country music singer

Sputnik Sputnik 1 (, , ''Satellite 1''), sometimes referred to as simply Sputnik, was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space progra ...

is from Bostrak and owns a home here.

References

Drangedal Villages in Telemark {{Telemark-geo-stub