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Kvalsund

Kvalsund ( and ) is a municipality

Municipalities of Norway

||}Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called county , and 430 municipality . The capital city Oslo is considered both a county and a municipality....
in Finnmark

Finnmark

or Finnm?rku is a Counties of Norway in the extreme northeast of Norway. By land it borders Troms county to the west, Finland to the south and Russia to the east, and by water, the Norwegian Sea to the northwest, and the Barents Sea to the north and northeast....
county

Counties of Norway

||-||}Norway is divided into 19 subnational, called county . The counties form the primary first-level subdivisions of Norway and are further divided into 431 Municipalities of Norway ....
, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Kvalsund. Kvalsund was separated from the municipality of Sørøysund

Sørøysund

S?r?ysund is a former municipality in Finnmark, Norway. The municipality was separated from the city of Hammerfest January 1, 1852, and until January 1, 1919 the municipality was named Hammerfest landsogn ....
on 1 July 1869.

The Kvalsund Bridge

Kvalsund Bridge

Kvalsund Bridge is a suspension bridge in Kvalsund municipality that crosses Kvalsundet from the mainland to Kval?ya, Finnmark in Finnmark county in Norway....
(Kvalsundbrua) is a suspension bridge

Suspension bridge

A suspension bridge is a type of bridge where the main load-bearing elements are hung from suspension cables. While modern suspension bridges with level decks date from the early 19th century, earlier types are reported from the 3rd century BC....
that crosses Kvalsundet from the mainland to the island of Kvaløya

Kvaløya, Finnmark

Kval?ya is an island in Finnmark county, North Norway. Its area is . It is situated in the municipalities of Hammerfest and Kvalsund. The city of Hammerfest is located in the western part of the island....
.

Since 2007, the mayor of Kvalsund is Tor Arvid Myrseth, who represents the Kvalsund Social Democrats.

Old Norse

Old Norse

Old Norse is a North Germanic languages that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300....
form of the name was Hvalsund.

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Kvalsund ( and ) is a municipality

Municipalities of Norway

||}Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called county , and 430 municipality . The capital city Oslo is considered both a county and a municipality....
in Finnmark

Finnmark

Counties of Norway

||-||}Norway is divided into 19 subnational, called county . The counties form the primary first-level subdivisions of Norway and are further divided into 431 Municipalities of Norway ....
, Norway

Norway

Sørøysund

Kvalsund Bridge

Suspension bridge

Kvaløya, Finnmark

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Name

The Old Norse

Old Norse

Whale

Whales are marine mammals of order Cetacea which are neither dolphinsmembers, in other words, of the families Oceanic dolphin or River dolphinnor porpoises....
" and the last element is sund which means "strait

Strait

A strait or straits is a narrow, navigable channel of water that connects two larger navigable bodies of water. It most commonly refers to a channel of water that lies between two land masses, but it may also refer to a navigable channel through a body of water that is otherwise not navigable, for example because it is too shallow, or...
" or "sound

Sound (geography)

In geography a sound or seaway is a large sea or ocean inlet larger than a Headlands and bays, deeper than a bight , wider than a fjord, or it may identify a narrow sea or ocean channel between two bodies of land ....
". The Sámi name also translates to Whale (fáles) Strait (nuorri).

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms

Coat of arms

A coat of arms, more properly called an armorial achievement, armorial bearings or often just arms for short, in European tradition, is a design belonging to a particular person and used by them in a wide variety of ways....
is from modern times. They were granted on 27 March 1987. The arms show three silver-colored salmon

Salmon

Salmon is the common name for several species of fish of the family Salmonidae. Several other fish in the family are called trout,the difference is often attributed to the migratory life of the salmon as compared to the residential behaviour of trout, this holds true for the Atlantic salmon....
arranged in a pall

Pall (heraldry)

A pall is a Y-shaped charge . An example of a pall is the green portion of the Flag of South Africa.A pall that stops short of the shield's edges and that has pointed ends to its three limbs is called a shakefork....
on a blue background. The salmon represents fishing

Fishing

Fishing is the activity of catching fish. Fishing techniques include Fish net, Fish trap, Spearfishing, angling and Gathering seafood by hand. The term fishing may be applied to catching other aquatic animals such as different types of shellfish, squid, octopus, turtles, Edible frog and some edible marine invertebrates....
in various forms: as a traditional way of living and source of income, as modern fish farming

Fish farming

Fish farming is the principal form of aquaculture, while other methods may fall under mariculture. It involves raising fish commercially in tanks or enclosures, usually for food....
, and as a recreational activity.

Birdlife

The municipality of Kvalsund has several localities that have a rich and varied bird fauna. One of these is Repparfjordbotn with its large colony of Arctic Tern

Arctic Tern

The Arctic Tern is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. This bird has a :wiktionary:circumpolar distribution, breeding colonially in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and North America ....
s and its autumn numbers of Goosander.

Kvalsund

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Coat-of-arms

Birdlife

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