Hoffland or Hovland
is a village in
Ă…lesund Municipality
Ålesund (, sometimes spelled Aalesund in English) is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal County, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Sunnmøre and the centre of the Ålesund Region. The town of Ålesund is the administrative ce ...
in
Møre og Romsdal
Møre og Romsdal (; ) is a Counties of Norway, county in the northernmost part of Western Norway, Western Norway. It borders the counties of Trøndelag, Innlandet, and Vestland. The county administration is located in the Molde (town), town of M ...
county,
Norway
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. The village is located on the western end of the island of
Ellingsøya, about northeast of the town of
Ă…lesund
Ålesund () is a List of towns and cities in Norway, town in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The town is the administrative centre of Ålesund Municipality. The centre of the town of Ålesund lies on the islands of Hessa, Aspøya, Ålesund, Aspà ...
and about west of the village of
Myklebust.
The village has a population (2024) of 963 and a
population density
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of .
It is located at the entrance to two
undersea tunnel
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s. The
Ellingsøy Tunnel leads to the city of
Ă…lesund
Ålesund () is a List of towns and cities in Norway, town in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The town is the administrative centre of Ålesund Municipality. The centre of the town of Ålesund lies on the islands of Hessa, Aspøya, Ålesund, Aspà ...
on the nearby island of
Nørve
Nørve (or ''Nørvøya'') is an island in Ålesund Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is the largest of the islands containing the city center of Ålesund, the others being Aspøya and Hessa, located to the west. The island o ...
and the
Valderøy Tunnel leads to the island of
Valderøya in neighboring
Giske Municipality
Giske is an island List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Møre og Romsdal Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The municipality lies north-northwest of the Ålesund (town), town of Ålesund in the Districts of Norway, traditional distr ...
.
Ole Brunes, a native of Hoffland, was among a group of fishermen of primarily Scandinavian ancestry who in the late 1880s founded the community of
Hovland, Minnesota
Hovland is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Cook County, Minnesota, Cook County, Minnesota, United States.
The community is located on Chicago Bay of the North Shore (Lake Superior), North Shore of Lake Superior. Hovland is lo ...
which he named for his Norwegian place of origin. Of similar origin is also the community of
Hoffland, Nebraska.
References
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Ă…lesund
Villages in Møre og Romsdal