Skottevik is a village in
Lillesand
Lillesand () is municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Sørlandet. The administrative center of the municipality is the town of Lillesand. Some of the larger villages in Lillesand municipality include ...
municipality in
Agder
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county,
Norway
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. The village is located on the
Skaggerak
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The ...
coast, about east of the village of
Ribe
Ribe () is a town in south-west Jutland, Denmark, with a population of 8,257 (2022). It is the seat of the Diocese of Ribe covering southwestern Jutland. Until 1 January 2007, Ribe was the seat of both a surrounding Ribe Municipality, municipali ...
and about northeast of the village of
Ulvøysund
Ulvøysund is a village and an outport in the municipality of Lillesand in Agder county, Norway. The village lies on the east side of the Kvåsefjorden on the island of Ulvøya. Just northeast of Ulvøysund is the entrance to the Blindleia inland ...
. The
outport
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of
Gamle Hellesund lies about to the northeast of Skottevik in the nearby coastal
archipelago
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Examples of archipelagos include: the Indonesian Archi ...
.
References
Villages in Agder
Lillesand
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