Feda is a village in
Kvinesdal
Kvinesdal is a municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Lister. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Liknes. Other villages in Kvinesdal include Feda, Fjotland, and Storekvi ...
municipality in
Agder
Agder is a county (''fylke'') and traditional region in the southern part of Norway. The county was established on 1 January 2020, when the old Vest-Agder and Aust-Agder counties were merged. Since the early 1900s, the term Sørlandet ("south ...
county,
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 ...
. The village is located on the north side of the
Fedafjorden
Fedafjorden is a fjord in Agder county, Norway. The is located in the municipalities of Kvinesdal, Flekkefjord, and Farsund. The long, narrow fjord runs south from the mouth of the river Kvina to the Listafjorden.
The fjord is long and only ...
, about southwest of the village of
Liknes
Liknes is the administrative centre of Kvinesdal municipality in Agder county, Norway. The village is located along the river Kvina, about north of the mouth where it empties into the Fedafjorden. The village of Storekvina lies about to the nor ...
and about east of the town of
Flekkefjord
is a municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Lister. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Flekkefjord. The villages of Sira, Gyland, Rasvåg, Kirkehavn, and Åna-Sira are ...
. The village has a population (2015) of 404, giving the village a
population density
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of .
The
European route E39 highway passes through the village. Feda is home to the
static inverter plant
An HVDC converter station (or simply converter station) is a specialised type of substation which forms the terminal equipment for a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission line.Arrillaga, Jos; High Voltage Direct Current Transmission, se ...
of HVDC
NorNed
NorNed is a long high-voltage direct current submarine power cable between Feda in Norway and the seaport of Eemshaven in the Netherlands, which interconnects both countries' electrical grids. It was once the longest submarine power cable in the ...
. The station was built close to an existing
electrical substation.
Feda Church
Feda Church ( no, Feda kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Kvinesdal Municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the village of Feda, on the shore of the Fedafjorden. It is the church for the Feda parish which is part ...
is located in the village, serving the southern part of the Kvinesdal municipality.
From 1900 to 1963 Feda was the administrative centre of
Feda municipality.
Name
The municipality (originally the
parish
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or m ...
) is named after the old "Fede" farm. The name of the farm comes from the river ''Fedaelva'' which flows into the ''Fedafjorden'' near the farm.
Notable people
Media gallery
Feda 2009.jpg, View of Feda from the bridge across the Fedafjorden
Feda 2 (864962627).jpg, View of Feda
Fedaelva og Fedafjorden 2010-07-04.jpg, Mouth of the Fedaelva at the Fedafjorden
References
External links
Weather information for Feda
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Villages in Agder
Kvinesdal