Grip is an archipelago, a deserted fishing village, and a former municipality (NO-1555) in Norway. An archipelago is a landform which consists of a chain or cluster of islands. ... A municipality or general-purpose district (compare with: special-purpose district) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government. ... The ISO 3166-2 codes for Norway describe 19 counties (fylke). ...

Archipelago

The Grip archipelago consists of 82 islets and rocks fourteen kilometers into the Norwegian Sea northwest off Kristiansund in Norway. The fishing village is located on the largest islet Gripholmen. On the south side of the village is the main harbor, protected by two breakwaters. Other breakwaters protects the village from large ocean waves. The highest point is just 10 meters above mean sea level. The Norwegian Sea (Norwegian: Norskehavet) is part of the North Atlantic Ocean northwest of Norway, located between the North Sea (i. ... County Møre og Romsdal Landscape Nordmøre Municipality NO-1503 Administrative centre Kristiansund Mayor (2004) Dagfinn Ripnes (H) Official language form BokmÃ¥l Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 426 23 km² 22 km² 0. ... Breakwaters are structures constructed on coasts as part of coastal defense. ...

The Inngripan group of rocks lies three kilometers closer to Kristiansund, where a small storm shed offered protection for shipwrecked fishermen. A shipwreck is the remains of a ship after it has sunk or been beached as a result of a crisis at sea. ...

Grip lighthouse, was built in 1888 on the nearby islet Bratthårskollen, north of the main island. The 44 meters tall lighthouse is a cast iron tower on a masonry foundation. It is the second tallest lighthouse tower in Norway, with a light range of 19 nautical miles. A radio beacon was operated between 1947 and 1986. Grip lighthouse is unmanned after it was automated in 1977 and was protected in 2000. The Peggys Point lighthouse in Nova Scotia, Canada An aid for navigation and pilotage at sea, a lighthouse is a tower building or framework sending out light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1888 is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... A nautical mile is a unit of length. ... Signal Tower at Cobbs Hill, near New Market, Virginia, 1864. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ... This article is about the year 2000. ...

Fishing village

The first indications of settlement at Grip is from the 9th century, where fishermen settled close to the fishing grounds. Exports of fish from Norwegian fishing villages became important during the monopoly of the Hanseatic League. Grip stave church is thought to have been constructed around 1470. This earthenware dish was made in 9th century Iraq. ... Categories: Stub ... In economics, a monopoly (from the Greek monos, one + polein, to sell) is defined as a persistent market situation where there is only one provider of a kind of product or service. ... The Hanseatic League (German: die Hanse) was an alliance of trading cities that established and maintained a trade monopoly over most of Northern Europe and the Baltic for a time in the later Middle Ages and the Early Modern period (ie between the 13th and 17th century). ... Grip stave church (Grip stavkirke) is a stave church on the island of Grip near Kristiansund in Norway. ... Events May 15 - Charles VIII of Sweden who had served three terms as King of Sweden dies. ...

Merchant Hans Hornemann in Trondheim bought the island from king Frederick IV in 1728 and the fishermen and their families became, in effect, vassals. The fishermen had to sell the catch to the merchants at a price decided by them. The merchants, becoming landlords, also bought most of the private properties. County Sør-Trøndelag Landscape Municipality NO-1601 Administrative centre Trondheim Mayor (2005) Rita Ottervik (A) Official language form Neutral Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 258 342 km² 322 km² 0. ... Jump to: navigation, search Frederick IV Frederick IV (October 11, 1671 - October 12, 1730) king of Denmark and Norway from 1699. ... Events Astronomical aberration discovered by the astronomer James Bradley Swedish academy of sciences founded at Uppsala Births January 9 - Thomas Warton, English poet (d. ...

Storm surges destroyed most of the village in 1796 and again in 1804. 1796 was a leap year starting on Friday. ... 1804 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

The population fluctuated for centuries, following the profitability of fishing, between 100 and 400 people. A now deserted village, it was once a busy place, when two thousand fishermen could stay there in the height of the fishing season. After being deserted, the old houses has become popular summer residences, and in the summer Grip has about 250 residents.

In the summer season, a highspeed passenger boat connects Grip to Kristiansund with one or two 30 minute crossings from the town center every day. Two diesel generators supplies the summer residents with electric power from 0700 to 2300, and the archipelago has mobile phone coverage from a tower in Kristiansund.

Municipality

The right to vote was in Norway until 1884 mostly limited to men with property. In a fishing village where a merchant in the town owned all the houses, nobody had the right to vote. Grip could not have a local democracy, and did not belong to any municipality. Through constitutional changes in 1884 the right to vote was extended to men who paid taxes, and the fishermen in Grip paid taxes. Grip municipality was founded in 1897, but the fishing village remained a feudal society. Suffrage is the civil right to vote, or the exercise of that right. ... 1884 is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1897 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Feudal society is a sometimes debated term used to describe the medieval social order of western and central Europe and sometimes Japan (particularly in the 14th to 16th centuries) characterised by the legal subjection of a large part of the peasantry to a hereditary landholding elite exercising administrative and judicial...

Grip municipality bought the village from Ludvig Williamsen in 1909. The entire community had previously been the property of a merchant in Kristiansund, not including the church, school and three private houses. The price of 110,000 kroner was financed through a public loan to be paid back in 45 years. The municipality then began selling the houses to their inhabitants. A census in 1910 showed a population of 187. 1909 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

With an area of only 0,48 km² of land, and a population of 70, Grip was the smallest municipality in Norway until it merged with Kristiansund in 1964. The population declined after World War II, and Grip became deserted in 1974 when Hildur and Kasper Larsen left just before christmas. Jump to: navigation, search 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that... Jump to: navigation, search 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search Christmas (literally, the Mass of Christ) is a holiday in the Christian calendar, usually observed on December 25, which celebrates the birth of Jesus. ...

External links

• Image of the lighthouse at Grip