Ervik is a village in
Stad Municipality
Stad is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Nordfjord. The municipality includes much of the northern shore of the Nordfjorden as well as the Stad peninsula. The administrative centre of the ...
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,
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 ...
. The village is located on the northwestern tip of the
Stadlandet peninsula, about northwest of the
village of Selje, and about northwest of the village of
Leikanger. The village sits at the southern base of the mountain plateau, ''Kjerringa'' which forms a cliff that plunges almost vertically into the ocean at the northwestern end of the peninsula. It is one of the westernmost villages in mainland Norway.
Ervik Church is located in the village. There is a memorial at the church for the people who died when was bombed by Allied aircraft and sank off the coast of Ervik.
The village has a grocery store, kindergarten, and small school. The residents of Ervik work mostly with
fishing
Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish. Fish are often caught as wildlife from the natural environment (Freshwater ecosystem, freshwater or Marine ecosystem, marine), but may also be caught from Fish stocking, stocked Body of water, ...
and
farming
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(mostly cattle, sheep, and goat farming). There is also a large beach area in the small bay along the coast of Ervik.
References
Stad, Norway
Villages in Vestland
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