Arasvika
Arasvika
Vågosen | |
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Village | |
 The ferry dock in Arasvika | |
 Interactive map of Arasvika | |
  Arasvika Location within Møre og Romsdal  Arasvika Location within Norway | |
| Coordinates: 63°10′3.1″N 8°26′19.9″E / 63.167528°N 8.438861°E | |
| Country | Norway |
| Region | Western Norway |
| County | Møre og Romsdal |
| District | Nordmøre |
| Municipality | Aure Municipality |
| Elevation | 64 m (210 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Post Code | 6694 Foldfjorden |
Arasvika or Vågosen is a village and ferry port in Aure Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway.
Geography
Arasvika lies on the south side of the island of Ertvågsøya along Arasvik Fjord. There are road connections to Arasvika via County Road 682 from the north and County Road 362 from the east. The Arasvika–Hennset Ferry connects the village to Hennset in Heim Municipality and European route E39.
Name
The village is named after the old Arasvik farm (Old Norse: Oraldsvík). The first element is Oraldr which is a historic name of a man. The last element is vík which means "small bay" or "cove". The oldest recorded form of the village's name is Oraldsuik, which appeared in a document from 1342.
Notable people
Notable people that were born or lived in Arasvika include:
- Holger Aresvik (1883–1938), a fiddler and painter
- Oddvar Aresvik (1915–1996), a professor of agricultural economics at the Norwegian College of Agriculture in Ås Municipality
References
- ↑ "Arasvika, Aure (Møre og Romsdal)" (in Norwegian). yr.no. Retrieved March 5, 2017.
- ↑ "Informasjon om stadnamn: Arasvika". Norgeskart (in Norwegian). Kartverket. Retrieved February 22, 2025.
- ↑ "Informasjon om stadnamn: Vågosen". Norgeskart (in Norwegian). Kartverket. Retrieved February 22, 2025.
- ↑ "Vegliste 2016: Fylkes- og kommunale veger. Møre og Romsdal" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Molde: Statens vegvesen Region nord. 2016. pp. 8 & 11. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 8, 2017. Retrieved March 5, 2017.
- ↑ "Hennset and Arasvika" (in Norwegian). Norgeskart.
- ↑ Rygh, Oluf (1908). Norske gaardnavne: Romsdals amt (in Norwegian) (13 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 443.
- ↑ Rygh, Oluf (1901). "Gamle Personnavne i norske Stedsnavne" (in Norwegian). Kristiania: W.C. Fabritius & Sønner. p. 191.
- ↑ "Gunhild Sigurdsdatters Testamente". Diplomatarium Norvegicum (in Norwegian).
- ↑ Elstad, Anne Karin; Hansen, Idar (1989). Eg helsar deg, Nordmør (in Norwegian). Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget. p. 110.
- ↑ Aresvik, Oddvar (1976). The Agricultural Development of Jordan. New York: Praeger. p. 377.