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Sommarøy or Sommerøya is an old fishing village in the western part of Tromsø Municipality in Troms county, Norway.It is located about 36 kilometres (22 mi) west of the city of Tromsø and is a popular tourist destination due to its white sand beaches and scenery.
Aerial imagery of the island of Sommarøy. Store Sommarøya or Sommarøya is an island in Tromsø Municipality in Troms county, Norway.The 0.9-square-kilometre (220-acre) island is located about 36 kilometres (22 mi) west of the city of Tromsø and is a popular tourist destination due to its white sand beaches and scenery.
Sommarøy Bridge (Norwegian: Sommarøybrua) is a cantilever bridge connecting the islands of Kvaløya and Sommarøy in the Hillesøy area of Tromsø Municipality in Troms county, Norway. The prestressed concrete bridge is 522 metres (1,713 ft) long and the longest span on the bridge is 120 metres (390 ft).
Hillesøya or Hilssát (Northern Sami) [1] is an island and fishing village in Tromsø Municipality in Troms county, Norway.The 1.8-square-kilometre (0.69 sq mi) island is dominated by a mountain, but the southeastern third of the island is relatively flat and that is where the residents of the island live.
Tromsø, [b] officially the Tromsø Municipality, [c] is a municipality in Troms county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Tromsø.Other notable settlements in the municipality include the villages of Bjerkaker, Ersfjordbotn, Jøvika, Kaldfjord, Kjosen, Kroken, Kvaløysletta, Lakselvbukt, Melvika, Movik, Oldervik, Sandneshamn, Sjursnes, Sommarøy, and Tromsdalen.
Troms (Norwegian: ⓘ; Northern Sami: Romsa; [3] Kven: Tromssa; Finnish: Tromssa) is a county in northern Norway. It borders Finnmark county to the northeast and Nordland county in the southwest. Norrbotten Län in Sweden is located to the south and further southeast is a shorter border with Lapland Province in Finland .
This is a list of villages in Troms, a county in Norway. For other counties see the lists of villages in Norway. This list excludes cities located in Troms. For multi-lingual areas, the Sami and/or Kven names are also given. The villages that are the administrative centres of their municipalities are marked (†) and highlighted in blue.
According to official climate statistics, the west coast of Kvaløya, facing the open ocean, is the warmest part of Tromsø municipality. The weather station at Sommarøy on the west coast has 24-hr averages of −1.9 °C (28.6 °F) in January, 11.9 °C (53.4 °F) in July and a mean annual temperature of 3.9 °C (39.0 °F), while annual precipitation is 940 millimetres (37 in).