Tomma is an island in

Nesna Municipality Nesna is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Nordland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Helgeland Districts of Norway, traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Nesna (village), v ...

Nordland Nordland (; , , , ) is one of the three northernmost Counties of Norway, counties in Norway in the Northern Norway region, bordering Troms in the north, Trøndelag in the south, Norrbotten County in Sweden to the east, Västerbotten County to t ...

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 island sits to the west of the islands of

Handnesøya Handnesøya is an island in Nesna Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The island lies between the islands of Tomma and Hugla and the mainland, along the Sjona fjord. The mountainous island has a very narrow flat areas on the east and west ...

and

Hugla Hugla is an island in Nesna Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The island lies south of the islands of Tomma and Handnesøya, west of the mainland of Nesna Municipality, east of the island of Løkta, and north of the Ranfjorden Ranfjo ...

. The island is at the southern entrance to the

Sjona Sjona is a fjord in Nordland county, Norway. The fjord begins in Rana Municipality and flows to the west through Nesna Municipality and Lurøy Municipality into the sea. The islands of Handnesøya and Tomma lie at the mouth of the fjord. The ...

fjord. The main settlement on this island is the village of Husby, where the old

Husby Estate The Husby Estate () is an estate in Helgeland, Norway. It is based in the village of Husby, Norway, Husby on the southwestern part of the island of Tomma in what is now Nesna Municipality. History Christensen family Anders Christensen the yo ...

and the

Husby Chapel Husby Chapel () is a chapel of the Church of Norway in Nesna Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Husby on the southern shore of the island of Tomma. It is an annex chapel in the Nesna parish which is part of ...

are located. Nesna map thumbview

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The

Old Norse Old Norse, also referred to as Old Nordic or Old Scandinavian, was a stage of development of North Germanic languages, North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants ...

form of the name was ''Þǫmb''. This name is probably identical with the word ''þǫmb'' which means " paunch" or "

belly Belly may refer to: Anatomy * The abdomen, the part of the body between the pelvis and the thorax; or the stomach ** A beer belly, an overhang of fat above the waist, presumed to be caused by regular beer drinking ** Belly dance * The fleshy, ce ...

". (It is common in Norway to compare topographic elements with parts of the human body.)

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Nesna Islands of Nordland {{Nordland-island-stub

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