Blindleia is an long inland

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in the municipality of

Lillesand Lillesand () is municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Sørlandet. The administrative center of the municipality is the town of Lillesand. Some of the larger villages in Lillesand municipality include ...

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county,

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. The

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starts in the ''Gamle Hellesund'' or ''

Ulvøysund Ulvøysund is a village and an outport in the municipality of Lillesand in Agder county, Norway. The village lies on the east side of the Kvåsefjorden on the island of Ulvøya. Just northeast of Ulvøysund is the entrance to the Blindleia inla ...

'' areas in southern Høvåg in the southwest (near

Kristiansand Kristiansand is a city and Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Agder county, Norway. The city is the fifth-largest and the municipality is the sixth-largest in Norway, with a population of around 116,000 as of January 2020, following th ...

) and it continues northeast past the town of

. It is a salt water

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passage that is protected from the open sea by an elongated archipelago of skerries and larger islands. There are several narrow gaps as part of the waterway, some of them only wide. Navigation through the passage is detailed but supposedly not difficult—since there are no tides and very little current—with clearly marked

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s and a few

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s along the way.Bindleia
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References

Lillesand Geography of Agder {{Agder-geo-stub

See also

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