Einavatnet is a

lake A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from ...

which lies in Vestre Toten Municipality in

Innlandet Innlandet is a Counties of Norway, county in Norway. It was created on 1 January 2020 with the merger of the old counties of Oppland and Hedmark (Jevnaker Municipality and Lunner Municipality were transferred to the neighboring county of Viken ( ...

county,

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. The lake lies at an elevation of above sea level. The lake lies in the southern portion of the municipality, about south of the municipal centre,

Raufoss Raufoss is a town in Vestre Toten Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The town is the administrative centre of the municipality. It is located about south of the larger town of Gjøvik. The town is located along the municipal border wi ...

. The village of Eina lies at the northern end of the lake. The Eina Church is located on the eastern shore of the lake. The Norwegian National Road 4 runs along the eastern shore of the lake. The river Hunnselva flows north out of the lake towards the town of Gjøvik where it drains into the large lake

Mjøsa Mjøsa is the largest lake in Norway and the fourth deepest in Norway and Europe. It is located in the southern part of Norway, about north of the city of Oslo. Its main tributary is the river Gudbrandsdalslågen flowing in from the north; the ...

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form of the name was probably just ''Eini''. This name is derived from ''einir'' which means "

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" (referring to the vegetation around the lake). The last element of the name is ''-vatnet'' which is the finite form of ''vatn'' which means "water" or "lake". Historically, the lake name only included the first element of the current name, and later the ''-vatnet'' suffix was added.

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Vestre Toten Lakes of Innlandet {{Innlandet-lake-stub

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