Vikhammer is a village in the municipality of

Malvik Malvik is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Trondheim Region. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Hommelvik. Other villages in Malvik include Muruvika, Smiskaret, Sneisen, Vikhammer, and ...

Trøndelag Trøndelag (; sma, Trööndelage) is a county in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County ( no, Trondhjems Amt); in 1804 the county was split into Nord-Trøndelag and Sør-Trøndelag by the King of Denmar ...

county,

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. The village is located along an arm of the

Trondheimsfjord The Trondheim Fjord or Trondheimsfjorden (), an inlet of the Norwegian Sea, is Norway's third-longest fjord at long. It is located in the west-central part of the country in Trøndelag county, and it stretches from the municipality of Ørland in ...

, about east of the village of

Hundhammeren Hundhammeren is a village in the municipality of Malvik in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located along an arm of the Trondheimsfjord, about west of the village of Vikhammer and about east of the village of Ranheim (in Trondheim). ...

. The villages of Hundhammeren, Vikhammer, Saksvik (all in Malvik), and Væretrøa (in Trondheim) together form an urban area called ''Malvik''. The urban area has a population (2018) of 6,965 and a

population density Population density (in agriculture: standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geographical term.Matt RosenberPopul ...

of . This area is the most populous urban area in the municipality. Vikhammer is a center of

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each summer, with many

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and

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camping tourists who camp at ''Vikhammer Camping''. Tourists come to see the

fjord In physical geography, a fjord or fiord () is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier. Fjords exist on the coasts of Alaska, Antarctica, British Columbia, Chile, Denmark, Germany, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Ice ...

s for which

is famous. Locally, the

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is also a popular tourist activity. The

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highway runs just south of the village. The

Vikhammer Station Vikhammer Station is a railway station located in the village of Vikhammer in the municipality of Malvik in Trøndelag county, Norway. The station is located about east of the city of Trondheim. The station is on the Nordland Line. The station ...

on the

Nordland Line The Nordland Line ( no, Nordlandsbanen, ) is a railway line between Trondheim and Bodø, Norway. It is the longest in Norway and lacks electrification. The route runs through the counties of Trøndelag (formerly Sør-Trøndelag and Nord-Trønd ...

is located in the village.

Malvik Church Malvik Church ( no, Malvik kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Malvik municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the village of Malvik. It is the church for the Malvik parish which is part of the Stjørdal prosti ...

is located just east of the village. The village is called "Vikhammer" because it was historically a

Viking Vikings ; non, víkingr is the modern name given to seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded and se ...

village. There is also a park in Vikhammer called "Vikhov park" which got its name because the Vikings had their houses in that area.

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Vikhammer Camping
Villages in Trøndelag Malvik {{Trøndelag-geo-stub