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Lindesnes
Lindesnes is a municipality in the county of Vest-Agder, Norway. Lindesnes was created as a new municipality on 1 January 1964 after the merger of the older municipalities of Spangereid, Sør-Audnedal, and Vigmostad....
, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
. Across the sound to the south lies Svinør
Svinør
Svinør is a Norwegian island south of Åvik in Lindesnes, and is a former port. It was most often used in bad weather , when it was the largest port east of Lindesnes. In 1800 many people lived here, but in has now been replaced by Vigeland as the municipal centre...
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