Austevoll Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Vestland
- District
- Midhordland
- Established
- 1 Jan 1886
- Preceded by
- Sund Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Storebø
- Mayor 2023
- Bente Kari Sletten Taranger ( H )
- Total
- 117.23 km (45.26 sq mi)
- Land
- 114.28 km (44.12 sq mi)
- Water
- 2.95 km (1.14 sq mi) 2.5%
- Rank
- # 324 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 243.42 m (798.6 ft)
- Density
- 46.4/km (120/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +7.6%
- Demonym
- Austevolling
- Norwegian form
- Nynorsk
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- austevolling
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Vestland
- Capital
- Storebø
- Population
- 5515
- Area
- 0.07
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Bjørnafjorden Municipality
- Highest point
- Loddo
- Official website
- www.austevoll.kommune.no
- Image
- Marstein lighthouse2.JPG
- Households
- 39
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- Commons category
- Austevoll
- topic's main category
- Category:Austevoll
- separated from
- Sund
- language used
- Nynorsk
- inception
- 1886-01-01
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Encyclopedic overview
Austevoll is a municipality and an archipelago in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Midhordland in Western Norway. The administrative centre is the village of Storebø on the island of Huftarøy. Other villages in the municipality include Årland, Austevollshella, Bakkasund, Bekkjarvik, Birkeland, Haukanes, Husavik, Kolbeinsvik, Otterå, Våge, and Vinnes.
The municipality consists of hundreds of islands located southwest of the city of Bergen. The municipality is considered to be among the ports in the world with the largest ocean-going fishing trawler fleet. Since the 1980s, the offshore oil industry and fish farming industry have both grown to be important industries in Austevoll.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Austevoll Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.