Sandefjordsfjorden or sometimes simply Sandefjorden, is a long

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Sandefjord Municipality Sandefjord () is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Vestfold. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Sandefjord ...

Vestfold Vestfold () is a county and a current electoral district in Norway. Located on the western shore of the Oslofjord, it borders Buskerud and Telemark counties. The county administration is located in Tønsberg, Norway's oldest city, and the larg ...

county,

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. It is located west of the mainland, south of the town of Sandefjord, and east of the

Vesterøya Vesterøya () a peninsula in Sandefjord Municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. It is one of two long, narrow peninsulas located south of the Sandefjord (town), city of Sandefjord. The peninsula lies between the Mefjorden and Sandefjordsfjorden ...

peninsula. The Sandefjordsfjord is the longest of the four fjords located in Sandefjord, Norway. It is a wide fjord which gradually shrinks northbound towards the city harbor. It has a number of small islands located in the fjord including Granholmen.

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The name dates to

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from 1200 AD. Its name derives from the name which, originally, was that of the farm just outside the present town centre, and which for hundreds of years was the vicarage of the parish of Sandeherred (Sandar), also known as – hence the . As the town came into existence, the name gradually came to be applied to it, and the need for an expression to allow references to the fjord, as opposed to the town, emerged. was the

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result. The name was suggested during the Sandar-Sandefjord merger in the 1960s, but its current name was ultimately kept.

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Sandefjord Fjords of Vestfold {{Vestfold-geo-stub

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