Vesterålen
Vesterålen is an archipelago in northern Norway, north of the Lofoten islands. Most of the islands are wilderness.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Andøya and Langøya.
Andøya
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Andøya is the northernmost island of Vesterålen in northern Norway's Nordland county. It is the country's 10th largest island.
Langøya
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Langøya is the third largest island of Norway, with an area of 850.2 square kilometres. The island is a part of the Vesterålen archipelago in Nordland county, Norway.
Stokmarknes
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Stokmarknes is a town on the northern coast of the island of Hadseløya and on the small, neighbouring island of Børøya in the Vesterålen archipelago of Northern Norway. For travel purposes, this article covers the entirety of Hadseløya and Børøya.
Vesterålen
- Type: Archipelago
- Description: archipelago and district in Norway
- Categories: geographic location and locality
- Location: Øksnes, Nordland, Northern Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude of center
68.7532° or 68° 45′ 11″ northLongitude of center
14.6786° or 14° 40′ 43″ eastElevation
506 metres (1,660 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 7060352663OpenStreetMap feature
place=archipelagoGeoNames ID
3132044Wikidata ID
Q935795
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Western Panjabi—“Vesterålen” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Վեստերոլեն”
- Belarusian: “Вестэрален”
- Belarusian: “Вестэролен”
- Breton: “Vesterålen”
- Bulgarian: “Вестеролен”
- Catalan: “Vesterålen”
- Cebuano: “Vesterålen”
- Chinese: “西奧倫群島”
- Czech: “Vesterály”
- Danish: “Vesterålen”
- Dutch: “Vesteralen”
- Dutch: “Vesterålen”
- Estonian: “Vesteralen”
- Estonian: “Vesterålen”
- Estonian: “Vesteraleni saared”
- Estonian: “Vesteråleni saared”
- Finnish: “Vesterålen”
- French: “Îles Vesterålen”
- French: “Vesteralen”
- French: “Vesterålen”
- Georgian: “ვესტეროლენი”
- German: “Vesteraalen”
- German: “Vesteralen”
- German: “Vesterålen”
- Italian: “Vesteralen”
- Italian: “Vesterålen”
- Japanese: “ベステローデン諸島”
- Javanese: “Vesterålen”
- Kirghiz: “Вестеролен ралдары”
- Latvian: “Vesterolu salas”
- Lithuanian: “Vesterolenas”
- Macedonian: “Вестеролен”
- Malay: “Vesterålen”
- Northern Sami: “Vesterålen”
- Northern Sami: “Viestterálas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vesterålen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vesterålen”
- Norwegian: “Vesterålen”
- Persian: “مجمع الجزایر ترول غربی”
- Persian: “مجمعالجزایر ترول غربی”
- Polish: “Vesteralen”
- Polish: “Vesterålen”
- Portuguese: “Vesterålen”
- Russian: “Вестеролен”
- Slovak: “Vesterály”
- Slovenian: “Vesterålen”
- South Azerbaijani: “وسترآلن”
- Spanish: “Vesteraalen”
- Spanish: “Vesteralen”
- Spanish: “Vesterålen”
- Swedish: “Vesteraalen”
- Swedish: “Vesterålen”
- Thai: “เว็สเตอโรเลิน”
- Turkish: “Vesterålen”
- Ukrainian: “Вестеролен”
- Welsh: “Vesterålen”
- Western Panjabi: “وسٹرالن”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Vesterålen”. Photo: Luke1ace, CC BY-SA 2.5.