Skardsøya is an

island An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island ...

Aure Municipality Aure is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the region of Nordmøre. The administrative centre is the village of Aure. Other villages in Aure include Gullstein, Stemshaug, Todalen, Tjeldbergodden, Arasvika, and ...

Møre og Romsdal Møre og Romsdal (; en, Møre and Romsdal) is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway. It borders the counties of Trøndelag, Innlandet, and Vestland. The county administration is located in the town of Molde, while Ålesund is the ...

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 island is located along the Trondheimsleia strait in the northeastern part of the municipality, just east of the island of Grisvågøya and north and west of the mainland. The island is connected to the mainland to the east by the

Dromnessund Bridge The Dromnessund Bridge ( no, Dromnessundbrua) is a bridge that crosses the Dromnessundet strait between the mainland and the island of Skardsøya in the municipality of Aure in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The long Dromnessund Bridge opened ...

and to the south by the Torsetsund Bridge. In 2015, the island had about 332 residents living on it. The Mellandsvågen Nature Reserve and Melland Nature Reserve are located on the western part of the island.

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Aure, Norway Islands of Møre og Romsdal {{MøreRomsdal-geo-stub

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