Susort is a village in Tysvær 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, Vestfold og Telemark to the east and Agder to the east and southeast. In 2020, it had a population of 47 ...

county, Norway. The village is located along the eastern shore of the Førlandsfjorden, about south of the village of Tysvær. The

European route E39 European route E39 is the designation of a north–south road in Norway and Denmark from Klett, just south of Trondheim, to Aalborg via Bergen, Stavanger and Kristiansand. In total, there are nine ferries, more than any other single road in Eu ...

highway runs just outside the village. The word is an old version of the word ''svarttrost'' which means " blackbird". For a long time, Susort was a place where people moved away from, until more recently. The large Kårstø industrial site and the

Kårstø Power Station Kårstø Power Station is an unused natural gas-fired thermal power plant located at the Kårstø industrial site in the southwestern part of the municipality of Tysvær in Rogaland county, Norway. The station lies along the Boknafjorden, about e ...

both lie just southeast of Susort, and since that area was developed in the 1980s, many houses have been built in Susort to house the people who work nearby.

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Villages in Rogaland Tysvær {{Rogaland-geo-stub