Vassøy
Vassøy is an island in Stavanger Municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The 0.73-square-kilometre island lies in the Storhaug borough, about 3.5 kilometres northeast of the centre of the city of Stavanger in an archipelago.- Type: Island
- Description: island in Stavanger, Norway
- Also known as: “Vassöen” and “Vassoy”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Grasholmen and St. Johannes Church.
Grasholmen
Islet
Photo: Tom Bayly, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Grasholmen is an island in Stavanger Municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is located in the Buøy neighborhood in the borough Hundvåg in the city of Stavanger, just north of the city centre. Grasholmen is situated 3½ km southwest of Vassøy.
St. Johannes Church
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
St. Johannes Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Stavanger Municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is located in the Johannes neighborhood in the borough of Storhaug in the centre of the city of Stavanger. St. Johannes Church is situated 4 km southwest of Vassøy.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Engøy and Hundvåg.
Engøy
Suburb
Photo: Zairon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Engøy is an island in Stavanger Municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is located in the "neighborhood" of Buøy in the borough Hundvåg in the city of Stavanger, just north of the city centre. Engøy is situated 3 km southwest of Vassøy.
Hundvåg
Suburb
Hundvåg is a borough of the city of Stavanger which lies in the southwestern part of the large Stavanger Municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The borough includes a number of islands lying to the north of the main city centre of Stavanger. Hundvåg is situated 3 km west of Vassøy.
Buøy
Suburb
Photo: Andersalmaas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Buøy is an island in Stavanger Municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is located in the borough of Hundvåg in the city of Stavanger. The 0.6-square-kilometre island was formerly separated from the island of Hundvåg by a small channel of water, but that was filled in and now it is part of the island of Hundvåg. Buøy is situated 3½ km west of Vassøy.
Vassøy
- Category: landform
- Location: Stavanger, Rogaland, Western Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Vassøy” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Vassøy (pulo sa Noruwega, Rogaland Fylke)”
- Cebuano: “Vassøy”
- Finnish: “Vassøy”
- French: “Vassøy (Rogaland)”
- French: “Vassøy”
- Malay: “Vassøy”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vassøy”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vassøy”
- Norwegian: “Vassøy”
- Norwegian: “Vassøya”
- Spanish: “Vassøy”
- Swedish: “Vassøy”
- Turkish: “Vassøy”
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