Djønno is a small village on the Oksen Peninsula in the municipality of
Ullensvang in
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
's
Hardanger district, in
Vestland
Vestland is a county in Norway established on 1 January 2020. The county is located in Western Norway and it is centred around the city of Bergen, Norway's second largest city. The administrative centre of the county is the city of Bergen, where t ...
county.
Geography
Djønno lies near the sea on the west side of the
Eid Fjord, about south of the ferry station in
Bruravik
Bruravik is a ferry quay in the municipality of Ulvik in Vestland county, Norway.
There was formerly a ferry connection from Bruravik to Brimnes in the municipality of Eidfjord. The ferry quay was equipped with waiting rooms, benches, and restro ...
. The nearest neighboring village is Kaland, which lies further into the fjord. Djønno is known for its fruit orchards.
The village first received a road connection in 1981, when it was connected by
Norwegian County Road 302 to the northeast. Before that, passengers and cargo were transported to and from the village by boat. Now people from Djønno can travel much more easily to the neighboring municipalities of
Granvin and
Ulvik than to
Kinsarvik, the administrative center of their own municipality. Today, young people from Djønno attend school in Granvin.
Name
The name of the village is also used as a surname, spelled ''Djønne''.
Notable people
Notable people that were born or lived in Djønno include:
*
Rannveig Djønne (born 1974), folk musician
*
Jorunn Hanto-Haugse, orchardist and illustrator
References
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Ullensvang
Villages in Vestland