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Hvaler

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Hvaler is a municipality that is a group of islands in the southwestern part of Østfold County, Norway. [1]

24 relations: Østfold, Bokmål, Bunad, Coat of arms, Counties of Norway, Eivind N. Borge, Fauna, Fishery, Flora, Formannskapsdistrikt, Håkon Christie, Kirkeøy, List of municipalities of Norway, Norway, Peter Tordenskjold, Plural, Privateer, Progress Party (Norway), Sailing, Scuba diving, Skjærhalden, Statistics Norway, Tisler, Whale.

Østfold

Østfold is a county in southeastern Norway, bordering Akershus and southwestern Sweden (Västra Götaland County and Värmland), while Buskerud and Vestfold are on the other side of Oslofjord.

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Bokmål

Bokmål (literally "book tongue") is an official written standard for the Norwegian language, alongside Nynorsk.

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Bunad

Bunad (plural: bunader/bunadar) is a Norwegian umbrella term encompassing, in its broadest sense, a range of both traditional rural clothes (mostly dating to the 19th and 18th centuries) as well as modern 20th-century folk costumes.

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Coat of arms

A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard.

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Counties of Norway

Norway is divided into 18 administrative regions, called counties (singular fylke, plural fylker (Bokmål) / fylke (Nynorsk) from Old Norse: fylki from the word "folk"); until 1918, they were known as amter.

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Eivind N. Borge

Eivind N. Borge (born 24 February 1950) is a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party.

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Fauna

Fauna is all of the animal life of any particular region or time.

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Fishery

Generally, a fishery is an entity engaged in raising or harvesting fish which is determined by some authority to be a fishery.

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Flora

Flora is the plant life occurring in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring or indigenous—native plant life.

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Formannskapsdistrikt

Formannskapsdistrikt is the name for Norwegian local self-government districts that were legally enacted on 1 January 1838.

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Håkon Christie

Håkon Andreas Christie (30 August 1922 – 14 December 2010) was a Norwegian architectural historian, antiquarian and author.

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Kirkeøy

Kirkeøy is the largest island in the Norwegian municipality of Hvaler.

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List of municipalities of Norway

Norway is divided into 18 administrative regions, called counties (fylker in Norwegian, singular: fylke), and 422 municipalities (kommuner/-ar, singular: kommune – cf. communes).

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Norway

Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.

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Peter Tordenskjold

Peter Jansen Wessel Tordenskiold (28 October 1690 – 12 November 1720), commonly referred to as Tordenskjold (lit. Thunder Shield), was a Danish-Norwegian nobleman and an eminent naval flag officer in the service of the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy.

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Plural

The plural (sometimes abbreviated), in many languages, is one of the values of the grammatical category of number.

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Privateer

A privateer is a private person or ship that engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war.

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Progress Party (Norway)

The Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet, Framstegspartiet, commonly abbreviated as FrP) is a political party in Norway.

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Sailing

Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the water (sailing ship, sailboat, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ice (iceboat) or on land (land yacht) over a chosen course, which is often part of a larger plan of navigation.

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Scuba diving

Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving where the diver uses a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (scuba) which is completely independent of surface supply, to breathe underwater.

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Skjærhalden

Skjærhalden is the administrative centre of Hvaler municipality, Norway.

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Statistics Norway

Statistics Norway (Statistisk sentralbyrå, abbreviated to SSB) is the Norwegian statistics bureau.

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Tisler

Tisler is a small island in southeast Norway.

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Whale

Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hvaler

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