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Moskenes is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway.The municipality comprises the southern part of the island of Moskenesøya in the traditional district of Lofoten.The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Reine.
Moskenes Island, or Moskenesøya, an island in Moskenes Municipality in Nordland county, Norway; Moskeneset, Finnmark, a small peninsula in Lebesby Municipality in ...
Reine [3] is the administrative centre of Moskenes Municipality in Nordland county, Norway.The fishing village is located on the island of Moskenesøya in the Lofoten archipelago, above the Arctic Circle, about 300 kilometres (190 mi) southwest of the city of Tromsø.
Moskenes Church is located in the northern part of the village along European route E10, in an area that is known as the village of Moskenes (although the two villages have grown together by conurbation and are now considered one urban area by Statistics Norway).
Moskenesøya (lit. ' Moskenes Island ') is an island at the southern end of the Lofoten archipelago in Nordland county, Norway.The 186-square-kilometre (72 sq mi) island is shared between Moskenes Municipality and Flakstad Municipality. [1]
Å (Norwegian pronunciation:, from å meaning "stream") or Å i Lofoten (lit. ' Å in Lofoten ') [2] is a village in Moskenes Municipality in Nordland county, Norway.It is located about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) southwest of the village of Sørvågen on the island of Moskenesøya, towards the southern end of the Lofoten archipelago.
Norwegian municipalities are named kommuner or kommunar (plural) or kommune (the singular form is the same in both Bokmål and Nynorsk). The Norwegian word kommune is loaned from the French word commune, which ultimately derives from Latin word communia, communis ("common"). [2] The Kven equivalent is kommuuni. [3]
Born on 17 November 1875 to merchant and ship captain Caspar Edvard Eriksen and his wife Jensine Petrine Arentzen in Flakstad Municipality in the area that is now Moskenes Municipality in Lofoten, Birger Eriksen left home early, at age 12, to go to Kristiania (as Oslo was known as at the time) to study. Nonetheless, he would return home to ...