Vanylvsfjord
| Vanylvsfjord | ||
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| Waters | European Arctic Ocean | |
| Land mass | Scandinavian peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 6 ′ N , 5 ° 25 ′ E | |
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| width | 5 km | |
| length | 22 km | |
| Greatest water depth | 252 m | |
The Vanylvsfjord ( Norwegian Vanylvsfjorden ) is a fjord on the west coast of Norway immediately northeast of the Stadlandet peninsula . It separates Fylke Vestland from Fylke Møre og Romsdal . At Slagnes, a settlement at the tip of the peninsula of the same name, the fjord forks into two terminal branches, the approximately 5 km long Syltefjord in the south-east to Sylte and the 8 km long Kjødepollen to Kjøde (in the municipality of Stad) in the south-west.
geography
Administratively, the fjord belongs to the two municipalities of Vanylven in the province of Møre og Romsdal and Stad in the province of Vestland. It begins in the north at the Haugsholmen Islands at the southern end of the Vanylvsgap, a bay in the Northern European Sea . The Haugsholmen beacon on the small island Flekøy secures the entrance to the Vanylvsfjord. From there it extends over a length of 22 km to the settlement of Kjøde at the end of the Kjødepollen in the municipality of Selje. Apart from the end area in Kjødspollen, which is only about 1 km wide, the width varies between 3 and 5 km. The greatest water depth is 252 m east of the small peninsula Rivjehornet, northeast of the settlement Borgundsvåg, at the entrance to the fjord.
Settlements
On both banks of the fjord there are small villages, hamlets and scattered settlements that are connected by roads along the banks. On Stadlandet, on the west side of the fjord in the municipality of Stad, are Borgundvåg in the north and further south Leikanger (about 400 inhabitants) and Kjøde at the end of the Kjødepollen. Between these settlements there are numerous single houses along the bank.
It is the same on the east and south banks, in Vanylven municipality. Across from Borgundvåg is Hakallestranda. Further south, just before the start of the Syltefjord, is the village of Fiskå (also Fiskåbygd, about 350 inhabitants), the administrative center of the municipality of Vanylven. Opposite it, on the south side of the fjord, is Slagnes with the parish church of Vanylven. At the end of the Syltefjord lies the hamlet of Sylte. About 5 km further west, on the east bank of the Kjødepollen, is the large village of Åheim (around 900 inhabitants) with the St. Jetmund Church from 1155. There, Åheimselv, which flows south from the Gusdalsvatn reservoir, flows into the Kjødepollen. Many of Åheim's residents are engaged in olivine mining .
Transport infrastructure
Streets
The provincial road Fv 620 connects the settlements along the entire west bank and around the Kjødepollen in the south to Åheim. There is the connection to the Fv 61, which runs around the entire Slagnes peninsula and then around the Syltefjord to Fiskå. From Fiskå to the north, Fv 2 then runs along the east bank of the fjord.
Ship tunnel planning
Due to the often very difficult weather and sea conditions, with the dangerous cross lakes , off the Stadlandet peninsula, the construction of a ship tunnel , the Stad Skipstunnel, is in planning, which at its narrowest point about 1.7 km wide isthmus between the Moldefjord in the west and should cross under the Vanylvsfjord in the east. The tunnel itself is to be 49 meters high, 36 meters wide and 1.7 kilometers long and, with a water depth of 12 meters, have a passage height of 37 meters and a passage width of 26.5 meters. Construction is scheduled to start in 2020, and the first ships should be able to pass through four years later. The project is expected to cost 2.7 billion Norwegian kroner .
Footnotes
- ↑ They belong to the islands of the municipality of Sande off the fjord to the north .
- ↑ Sankt Jetmund is the Norwegian name of the English saint St. Edmund .
- ↑ Stad skipstunnel, at nrk.no fylkesleksikon
- ↑ Project leather Randi Paulsen Humborstad, Nordfjord Vekst: Stad skipstunnel. Dimensjoner Stad Skipstunnel. In: project website. Retrieved August 27, 2018 (Norwegian).