Statens kartverk
Fakta om stedsnavn: Gubbeltåga
, Stedsobjekt-id: 2274931, Navneenhets-id: 712261 og 712262 or is a

river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...

in the municipality of

Rana Rana may refer to: Astronomy * Rana (crater), a crater on Mars * Delta Eridani or Rana, a star People, groups and titles * Rana (name), a given name and surname (including a list of people and characters with the name) * Rana (title), a histori ...

Nordland Nordland (; smj, Nordlánnda, sma, Nordlaante, sme, Nordlánda, en, Northland) is a county in Norway in the Northern Norway region, the least populous of all 11 counties, bordering Troms og Finnmark in the north, Trøndelag in the south, N ...

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 ...

, which flows in a southern and southwestern direction. The long river begins at the

drainage divide A drainage divide, water divide, ridgeline, watershed, water parting or height of land is elevated terrain that separates neighboring drainage basins. On rugged land, the divide lies along topographical ridges, and may be in the form of a singl ...

on the Saltfjellet plateau in the north. On its direction mainly southwards, it meets and becomes a part of Randalselva, which has its beginning in the Norwegian-

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

border regions. At ''Elvmøthei'' in the

Dunderland Valley The Dunderland Valley ( no, Dunderlandsdalen, smj, Dunndaravuobme) is a valley in the municipality of Rana in Nordland county, Norway. It reaches from just below the eastern Saltfjellet plateau about south of the Arctic circle. The mountain ...

, Randalselva then meets

Virvasselva or is a river in the municipality of Rana in Nordland county, Norway. The river flows out of the eastern part of the lake Virvatnet. The stream ''Boneselva'' meets Virvasselva about east of the lake Virvatnet. This is a large, continuous, ver ...

and thus forms the beginning of Ranelva.

Name

The name is of Sami origin. ''Gubbelt'' means "valley in the mountain", and ''ædno'' means "large river".Sandnes, Jørn; Stemshaug, Ola (1976). Norsk stadnamnleksikon. Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo. , page 135 Gubbeltåga is first mentioned in written records in 1742, during legal depositions in

Selfors Selfors is a village in the municipality of Rana in Nordland county, Norway. Selfors sits on the northern shore of the river Ranelva and it is a northeastern suburb of the town of Mo i Rana. The European route E06 highway passes through the vill ...

and in Gildeskål. These were connected to the drawing of the borders between Norway and Sweden after the

Great Northern War The Great Northern War (1700–1721) was a conflict in which a coalition led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish Empire in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. The initial leaders of the anti-Swedi ...

, a process leading to two different laws of the border in 1752.

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