Susort 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 in Rogaland 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 the ...

. The village is located along the eastern shore of the Førlandsfjorden, about south of the village of

. The European route E39 highway runs just outside the village. The word is an old version of the word ''svarttrost'' which means " blackbird". For a long time, Susort was a place where people moved away from, until more recently. The large

Kårstø Kårstø is an industrial facility located near the village of Susort, along the Boknafjorden, in the municipality of Tysvær in Rogaland county, Norway. The site features a number of natural gas processing plants that refine natural gas and con ...

industrial site and the Kårstø Power Station both lie just southeast of Susort, and since that area was developed in the 1980s, many houses have been built in Susort to house the people who work nearby.

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Villages in Rogaland Tysvær {{Rogaland-geo-stub