Eik is a village in

Lund Lund (, ;"Lund"
(US) and ) is a city in the provinces of Sweden, province of Scania, southern Swed ...

municipality in

Rogaland Rogaland () is a Counties of Norway, county in Western Norway, bordering the North Sea to the west and the counties of Vestland to the north, Telemark to the east and Agder to the east and southeast. As of 1 January 2024, it had a population of 49 ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...

. The village is located about north of the municipal centre of

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. The small village lies in an area called ''Hovsherad'' on the north shore of the lake Hovsvatnet. The river Storåni runs through Eik. Since 1981 it has had a station for worldwide

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access. It is part of a

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system that is used by

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, and other countries. The ''Eik treskofabrikk'' company is a

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factory also located in Eik.

References

Villages in Rogaland Lund, Norway {{Rogaland-geo-stub