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Bøverfjorden
Bøverfjorden (sometimes Bæverfjord or Bøverfjord) is a village in the municipality of Surnadal in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It lies on the shore of Hamnesfjord along County Road 65 where the Bøvra River empties into the fjord. Name Locally, the name of the village is pronounced ''Bøffjorn''.Nordland, Ingvil. 2009. ''Normering av stedsnavn i skjæringspunktet mellom vedtaksorgan og grunneier''. Master's thesis. Oslo: University of Oslo, Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, p. 99. The name is derived from Old Norse ''Bifrarfjǫrðr'' 'beaver fjord' Helland, Amund. 1911. ''Norges land og folk topografisk-statistisk beskrevet. Topografisk-historisk beskrivelse over Romsdals amt''. Kristiania: H. Aschehoug & Company, p. 57. with substitution of the Norse first element by Low German : : : : : (70,000) (30,000) (8,000) , familycolor = Indo-European , fam2 = Germanic , fam3 = West Germanic , fam4 = North Sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bøvra
The Bøvra, also known as the Bævra, is a river in the municipality of Surnadal in Møre og Romsdal county and in the municipalities of Rindal and Heim in Trøndelag county, Norway. The long river runs through the Bøver Valley and empties into Hamnesfjord at the village of Bøverfjorden, where the high-water mark lies upstream from the mouth of the river. Its drainage basin covers and receives about of precipitation annually. The main river has a natural salmon population up to from the fjord, and salmon can also be found into the Svorka River, a tributary. After regulation of the river, salmon fishing has been limited to downstream from the Svorka power station. In 1986 salmon flukes, a parasite, were detected and the river was treated with rotenone in 1986 and 1989. After the treatment, the river was reopened for fishing in 1994. In addition to salmon, sea trout also travel up the river.Ugedal, Ola, et al. 2014. ''Fiskebiologiske undersøkelser i Bævra. Sluttrapport ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamnesfjord
Hamnesfjord or Hamnesfjorden is a fjord in Surnadal Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The long fjord begins at the mouth of the Bøvra River at the village of Bøverfjorden, just east of the village of Åsskard, about northwest of the villages of Sylte, Skei, and Surnadalsøra. The fjord flows west into the main Trongfjorden Trongfjorden is a fjord between Surnadal Municipality and Tingvoll Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The fjord is approximately long and is a continuation of the Halsafjorden on the north end near the village of Torjulvågen in Ti .... There are few settlements along the fjord due to the steep mountainsides along the fjord. References Fjords of Møre og Romsdal Surnadal {{MøreRomsdal-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |