Hinnøya
Hinnøya | |
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Sigerfjord on the west side of Hinnøya | |
Waters | European Arctic Ocean |
Archipelago | Lofoten and Vesterålen |
Geographical location | 68 ° 32 ' N , 15 ° 50' E |
length | 52 km |
width | 45 km |
surface | 2 204.7 km² |
Highest elevation | Møysalen 1262 moh. |
Residents | 31,851 14 inhabitants / km² |
main place | Harstad |
Hinnøyas southeast in April |
With an area of 2,204 km², Hinnøya is the largest island off the coast of Norway . With the exception of the Spitzbergen archipelago , it is the largest Norwegian island. Hinnøya is inhabited, in addition to the largest settlement Harstad there are a few smaller villages. It is one of the most populous islands in Norway.
The place Digermulen at the southern end of the island exerted a strong attraction on Kaiser Wilhelm II . He traveled here several times from 1890 and climbed the Digermulenkollen mountain top, which offers a great view of the Vestfjord and the Raftsund . He's building a varde here . The mountain top has been called Keiservarden since then. Numerous German tourists followed in his footsteps.
geography
The island in the Northern European Sea is divided by several fjords , and two particularly long fjords , the Gullesfjord in the northeast and the Øksfjord in the southwest, cut it almost in two parts: only 5 km separate their ends. The landscape is mountainous. In the south of the island is Møysalen , its highest mountain at 1,262 m. The agricultural use is concentrated in the north-east around Harstad and Kvæfjord .
The connection to the mainland is made by the 1007 m long Tjeldsund Bridge over the Tjeldsund . In the west, the Sortland Bridge leads to the neighboring island of Langøya and in the north the Andøy Bridge leads to the island of Andøya . All three islands belong geographically to the Vesterålen archipelago .
Political division
About half of Hinnøya is in Fylke Troms og Finnmark ( Harstad and Kvæfjord ) and half in Nordland ( Andøy , Hadsel , Lødingen , Sortland and Tjeldsund ). The West of Hinnøya is the archipelago of Vesterålen attributed the southwestern tip is considered part of Lofoten , because they previously only accessible by boat from Svolvær was accessed from.
literature
- Paul Güßfeldt: Kaiser Wilhelm II. Travels to Norway, Berlin, 1892, pp. 316-320