Ornes
Ornes is a village in Luster Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located on a small peninsula that juts out into the Lustrafjorden, the innermost part of the Sognefjorden.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in Luster, Norway
- Also known as: “Ornes, Vestland” and “Urnes”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Urnes Stave Church.
Urnes Stave Church
Church
Photo: Superbass, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Urnes Stave Church is a 12th-century stave church at Ornes, along the Lustrafjorden, in Luster Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The church sits on the eastern side of the fjord, directly across the fjord from the village of Solvorn and about five kilometres east of the village of Hafslo.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Solvorn.
Solvorn
Village
Photo: Vinguru, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Luster is a district in Sogn og Fjordane county. Luster sits right at the intersection of central alpine mountains, great glaciers and the iconic fjords. Solvorn is situated 4 km west of Ornes.
Ornes
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Luster, Western Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
61.29763° or 61° 17′ 52″ northLongitude
7.32021° or 7° 19′ 13″ eastElevation
200 metres (656 feet)Open location code
9FH978XC+33OpenStreetMap ID
node 434555123OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Danish to Swedish—“Ornes” goes by many names.
- Danish: “Ornes”
- Dutch: “Ornes”
- French: “Ornes”
- German: “Ornes”
- German: “Urnes”
- Irish: “Ornes”
- Latin: “Urnes”
- Malay: “Ornes, Sogn og Fjordane”
- Malay: “Ornes”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ornes”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Urnes”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ornes”
- Norwegian: “Ornes”
- Persian: “اورنس، سون اوگ فوردان”
- Persian: “اورنس”
- Swedish: “Urnes”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ornes”. Photo: Krg, CC BY-SA 4.0.