Dueland or Dualand is a village in
Tysvær
Tysvær is a municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is part of the Haugalandet region. The municipality is located on the Haugalandet peninsula on the northern side of the Boknafjorden, just east of the towns of Kopervik and Haugesund. Th ...
municipality,
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 the ...
. It is located just west of the larger village of
Skjoldastraumen.
History
It was previously located in
Skjold municipality. On 1 January 1965, Skjold municipality was dissolved and its territory dispersed between three municipalities. The districts surrounding
Yrkje, Dueland, and
Grinde, with 1,133 inhabitants in total, were moved to Tysvær municipality.
People with the surname
Dueland could be people from this farm, but typically people with that last name hail from a different farm called Dueland in Ølen. Several of those residents emigrated to the US; to Nebraska, Illinois and Iowa.
References
Villages in Rogaland
Tysvær
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