Tjøme 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 ...

Færder Municipality Færder is a municipality in Vestfold in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Borgheim. The municipality was established in 2018 by the unification of the former municipalities of ...

Vestfold Vestfold is a traditional region, a former county and a current electoral district in Eastern Norway. In 2020 the county became part of the much larger county of Vestfold og Telemark. Located on the western shore of the Oslofjord, it bordered th ...

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 lies immediately south of the large island of Nøtterøy, between the

Ytre Oslofjord Ytre Oslofjord (Norwegian literally "Outer Oslo Fjord") is that part of Oslofjord which is south of the threshold of Drøbaksund (literally Drøbak Sound), the strait where the fjord narrows between Drøbak and Hurum, Norway. Ytre Oslofjord stret ...

(to the east) and the Tønsbergfjorden (to the west). The smaller island of

Veierland Veierland is a populated, carfree island in Færder municipality, Norway. A ferry service operated by Jutøya AS connects the island with the nearby, larger island of Nøtterøy. The island also has a permanent ferry link to Engø peninsula in n ...

lies west of the island and

Hvasser Hvasser is a populated island and a village in Færder municipality, Norway, connected to mainland and the city of Tønsberg via the islands Brøtsø, Tjøme and Nøtterøy. The name comes from the Norwegian word "hvass", meaning sharp, which is ...

lies to the east. The island of Tjøme is connected to the islands of Nøtterøy and Hvasser by bridges and the island of Nøtterøy is connected to the mainland by the

Tønsberg Canal Bridge Tønsberg Canal Bridge ( no, Tønsberg kanalbru or just ) is a double-leaf bascule bridge in Tønsberg Municipality in Vestfold county, Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in North ...

. The island was part of Tjøme Municipality from 1838 until 2018 when it became part of the newly-created

. The main population centre on the island is the village of Tjøme in the central part of the island.

Nature

The landscape of the island is hilly. The highest point on the island is the tall hill Herkelås. The bedrock forming the island consists of

syenite Syenite is a coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock with a general composition similar to that of granite, but deficient in quartz, which, if present at all, occurs in relatively small concentrations (< 5%). Some syenites contain larger proport ...

, and the depressions on the island are covered by sand and clay. The shoreline can be rocky, but there are some beaches as well which draw significant numbers of summer tourists.

References

Færder Islands of Vestfold og Telemark {{Vestfold-geo-stub

Nature

See also

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