Djønno is a small village on the Oksen Peninsula in the municipality of

Ullensvang Ullensvang is a Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is located in the Districts of Norway, traditional district of Hardanger. The administrative centre is the Odda (town), town of Odda. Some o ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...

Hardanger Hardanger is a traditional district in the western part of Norway, dominated by the Hardangerfjord and its inner branches of the Sørfjorden and the Eid Fjord. It consists of the municipalities of Ullensvang, Eidfjord, Ulvik and Kvam, and is ...

district, in

Vestland Vestland is a Counties of Norway, county in Norway. The county is located in Western Norway, and its administrative centre is Bergen, where the executive and political leadership is based. The County governor (Norway), County Governor is based in ...

county.

Geography

Djønno lies near the sea on the west side of the

Eid Fjord The Eid Fjord () is the innermost part of the Hardangerfjord, Hardanger Fjord in Norway. It extends eastwards from the Utne Fjord and Sørfjorden (Hardanger), Sørfjorden. The Eid Fjord lies in the municipalities of Ullensvang, Ulvik, and Eidf ...

, about south of the ferry station in

Bruravik Bruravik is a ferry quay in the municipality of Ulvik in Vestland county, Norway. There was formerly a ferry connection from Bruravik to Brimnes in the municipality of Eidfjord. The ferry quay was equipped with waiting rooms, benches, and restr ...

. The nearest neighboring village is Kaland, which lies further into the fjord. Djønno is known for its fruit orchards. The village first received a road connection in 1981, when it was connected by Norwegian County Road 302 to the northeast. Before that, passengers and cargo were transported to and from the village by boat. Now people from Djønno can travel much more easily to the neighboring municipalities of Granvin and

Ulvik Ulvik is a municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The municipality stretches from the Hardangerfjord to the mountains that reach above sea level. The administrative centre of the municipality is t ...

than to

Kinsarvik Kinsarvik is a village in the municipality of Ullensvang in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located at the end of a small bay at the confluence of the Sørfjorden and the Eid Fjord, where they join to form the main branch of the Hardang ...

, the administrative center of their own municipality. Today, young people from Djønno attend school in Granvin.

Name

The name of the village is also used as a surname, spelled ''Djønne''.

Notable people

Notable people that were born or lived in Djønno include: * Rannveig Djønne (born 1974), folk musician * Jorunn Hanto-Haugse, orchardist and illustrator

References

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