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Data from Statistics Norway (http://www.ssb.no/english/municipalities/1144) taken and modified from no. ... Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called counties (fylker, singular - fylke, until 1918 known as amter, singular - amt), and 433 municipalities (kommuner). ... Rogaland is a county in Norway, bordering Hordaland, Telemark, Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder. ... Ryfylke is a sheltered fjord landscape in Norway, located north of Stavanger and east of Haugesund. ... Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called counties (fylker, singular - fylke), and 433 municipalities (kommuner). ... The ISO 3166-2 codes for Norway describe 19 counties (fylke). ... The Christian Democratic Party of Norway (Kristelig Folkeparti or KrF, litteraly Christian Peoples Party), is a Norwegian political party founded in 1933. ... Norwegian is a Germanic language spoken in Norway. ... This article explains the meaning of area as a physical quantity. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... In the most common sense of the word, a population is the collection of people—or organisms of a particular species—living in a given geographic area. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Population density can be used as a measurement of any tangible item. ... This article is about longitude and latitude; see also UTM coordinate system Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (vertically) and longitude (horizontally); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which...

Kvitsøy is a municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway. It has as many islands as there are days in the year, 365. Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called counties (fylker, singular - fylke), and 433 municipalities (kommuner). ... Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called counties (fylker, singular - fylke, until 1918 known as amter, singular - amt), and 433 municipalities (kommuner). ... Rogaland is a county in Norway, bordering Hordaland, Telemark, Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder. ... Norway - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ...

Kvitsøy is an archipelago situated 2 nautical miles northwest of the coast of the Stavanger peninsula. The largest island is connected with only a few of the other islands in the archipelago, but even some of the islands that are not connected by road have all year inhabitants. An archipelago is a landform which consists of a chain or cluster of islands. ... A nautical mile is a unit of distance, or, as physical scientists like to call it, length. ...

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History

Kvitsøy is first mentioned in the Snorre Saga, where Snorre records a truce being made between King Olaf II of Norway later to be known as St. Olav (Hellige Olav) and Erling Sjalgsson, under the stone cross. Later it seems that the islands was owned by the Church until the reformation, when it became Crown property. Later its significance has been as a location for lighthouse service. Olav II Haraldsson ( 995 – 1030), king from 1015–1028, called during his lifetime the Fat and afterwards known as Saint Olaf, was born in the year in which Olaf Tryggvesson came to Norway. ...

Climate

The islands are engulfed totally by the Gulf Stream and hence have a typically wet Nordic costal climate. The sea between the islands and the mainland are never frozen. For the album by Ocean Colour Scene, see North Atlantic Drift (album) The Gulf Stream is orange and yellow in this representation of water temperatures of the Atlantic. ...

Fauna and flora

There are no larger mammals except seal (kobbe) and small dolphins (nise). The islands have a rich marine bird life. A lot of different plants have found its way to the islands. Some natural to Norwegian flora, and some transported by ship emptying their hull of ballast before entering Stavanger. subfamilies Otariidae Phocidae Odobenidae Pinnipeds are large marine mammals belonging to the Pinnipedia, a family (sometimes a suborder or superfamily, depending on the classification scheme) of the order Carnivora. ... Genera See article below. ... Ballast may mean: track ballast: gravel or cinders forming the railroad or railway track-bed on which sleepers (ties) and track is laid, for proper drainage ships ballast: water, sand, rocks, or bricks used to weight a ship down when it has very little cargo (though water may contain... County Rogaland Landscape Jæren Municipality NO-1103 Administrative centre Stavanger Mayor (2004) Leif Johan Sevland (H) Official language form Bokmål Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 406 71 km² 68 km² 0. ...

Transmitter

Kvitsøy is the site of high power transmitters for short wave and medium wave broadcasting transmitters of the broadcasting company of Norway. The aerial tower of the mediumwave transmitter is the Kvitsoy-Tower. Note: broadcasting is also the old term for hand sowing. ... Norsk Rikskringkasting (NRK) - the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation - is the Norwegian state-owned radio and television public broadcasting company. ... Radio masts at Kvitsoy (Kvitsøy), Norway Kvitsoy-Tower is the name for the aerial tower of the 1200 kilowatt transmitter of the broadcasting company of Norway for the frequency 1314 kHz, which was built in 1981/82. ...

Municipalities of Rogaland

Bjerkreim | Bokn | Eigersund | Finnøy | Forsand | Gjesdal | Haugesund | Hjelmeland | Hå | Karmøy | Klepp | Kvitsøy | Lund | Randaberg | Rennesøy | Sandnes | Sauda | Sokndal | Sola | Stavanger | Strand | Suldal | Time | Tysvær | Utsira | Vindafjord | Ølen Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called counties (fylker, singular - fylke), and 433 municipalities (kommuner). ... Rogaland is a county in Norway, bordering Hordaland, Telemark, Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The municipality Bjerkreim in the county of Norway, has 2,467 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002. ... The municipality Bokn in the county of Rogaland, Norway, has 765 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002. ... Eigersund is a municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway. ... County Rogaland Landscape Ryfylke Municipality NO-1141 Administrative centre Finnøy Mayor (2003) Jorunn Strand Vestbø (Sp) Official language form Nynorsk Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 382 104 km² 103 km² 0. ... The municipality Forsand in the county of Rogaland, Norway, has 1,055 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002. ... The municipality Gjesdal in the county of Rogaland, Norway, has 9,104 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002. ... Haugesund is a town and municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway. ... The municipality Hjelmeland in the county of Rogaland, Norway, has 2,708 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002. ... County Rogaland Landscape Jæren Municipality NO-1119 Administrative centre Varhaug Mayor (2004) Terje Mjåtveit (Nærbølista) Official language form Neutral Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 297 259 km² 249 km² 0. ... County Rogaland Landscape Haugaland Municipality NO-1149 Administrative centre Kopervik Mayor (2004) Kjell Arvid Svendsen (KrF) Official language form Neutral Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 313 229 km² 219 km² 0. ... Klepp is a municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway. ... The municipality Lund in the county of Rogaland, Norway, has 3,130 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002. ... Sandestraen Randaberg is a municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway, located just to the north of Stavanger. ... Sandnes is a city in the county of Rogaland, Norway. ... The town and municipality Sauda in the county of Rogaland, Norway, has 4,926 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002. ... Sokndal is a municipality in the county of Rogaland. ... Sola is a municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway. ... County Rogaland Landscape Jæren Municipality NO-1103 Administrative centre Stavanger Mayor (2004) Leif Johan Sevland (H) Official language form Bokmål Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 406 71 km² 68 km² 0. ... The municipality Strand in the county of Rogaland, Norway, has 10,188 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002. ... The municipality Suldal in the county of Rogaland, Norway, has 3,984 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002. ... Time is a municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway. ... The municipality Utsira in the county of Rogaland, Norway, has 233 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002. ... The municipality Vindafjord in the county of Rogaland, Norway, has 4,827 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002. ... County Rogaland Landscape Haugaland Municipality NO-1159 Administrative centre Ølen Mayor (2003) Arne Bergsvåg (Sp) Official language form Nynorsk Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 343 181 km² 178 km² 0. ...

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