Litlabø

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Litlabø
Litlabø (Norway)
Coordinates: 59°47′21″N05°25′18″E / 59.78917°N 5.42167°E / 59.78917; 5.42167 Coordinates: 59°47′21″N05°25′18″E / 59.78917°N 5.42167°E / 59.78917; 5.42167
Country Norway
Region Western Norway
County Hordaland
District Sunnhordland
Municipality Stord
Elevation [1] 41 m (135 ft)
Time zone CET (UTC+01:00)
  Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+02:00)
Post Code5410 Sagvåg

Litlabø is a village and former mining community in the municipality of Stord in Hordaland county, Norway. It is located at the northern side of the lake of Storavatnet, just northeast of the village of Sagvåg. The village had about 450 inhabitants as of 2001. Litlabø was the location for the pyrite mines of Stordø Kisgruber, which operated from 1907 to 1968. [2] [3]

Stord Municipality in Hordaland, Norway

Stord is a municipality in Hordaland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sunnhordland. Stord is sometimes called "Norway in miniature" since it has such a variety of landscapes: coastline, fjords, forests, agricultural land, and mountain areas. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Leirvik, which is also the largest town in the municipality and the whole region of Sunnhordland. Leirvik was declared a town in 1997. Other population centres in the municipality include the large village of Sagvåg and the smaller villages of Litlabø and Grov.

Hordaland County (fylke) of Norway

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Norway constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe

Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe whose territory comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula; the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard are also part of the Kingdom of Norway. The Antarctic Peter I Island and the sub-Antarctic Bouvet Island are dependent territories and thus not considered part of the kingdom. Norway also lays claim to a section of Antarctica known as Queen Maud Land.

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References

  1. "Litlabø, Stord (Hordaland)" (in Norwegian). yr.no . Retrieved 2015-02-04.
  2. Godal, Anne Marit (ed.). "Litlabø". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  3. Lauritzen, Per Roger, ed. (2013). NAF Veibok 2014-2016 (in Norwegian) (30 ed.). Oslo: Norges Automobil-Forbund. pp. 30, 244. ISBN   978-82-7167-124-2.