Feda is a village in
Kvinesdal
Kvinesdal is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Lister Region, Lister. The administrative centre of the municipality is the villa ...
municipality in
Agder
Agder is a counties of Norway, county () and districts of Norway, traditional region in the southern part of Norway and is coextensive with the Southern Norway region. The county was established on 1 January 2020, when the old Vest-Agder and Au ...
county,
Norway
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. The village is located on the north side of the
Fedafjorden
Fedafjorden is a fjord in Agder county, Norway. The is located in the municipalities of Kvinesdal, Flekkefjord, and Farsund. The long, narrow fjord runs south from the mouth of the river Kvina to the Listafjorden.
The fjord is long and only ...
, about southwest of the village of
Liknes
Liknes is the administrative centre of Kvinesdal municipality in Agder county, Norway. The village is located along the river Kvina, about north of the mouth where it empties into the Fedafjorden. The village of Storekvina lies about to the no ...
and about east of the town of
Flekkefjord
Flekkefjord () is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Lister Region, Lister. The administrative centre of the municipality is the ...
. The village has a population (2015) of 404, giving the village a
population density
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of .
The
European route E39
European route E39 is the designation of a north–south road in Norway and Denmark from Klett, just south of Trondheim (city), Trondheim, to Aalborg via Bergen, Stavanger and Kristiansand. In total, there are nine ferries, more than any other ...
highway passes through the village. Feda is home to the
static inverter plant of HVDC
NorNed
NorNed is a long high-voltage direct current submarine power cable between Feda, Norway and the seaport of Eemshaven in the Netherlands, which interconnects both countries' electrical grids. It was once the longest submarine power cable in the ...
. The station was built close to an existing
electrical substation
A substation is a part of an electrical generation, transmission, and distribution system. Substations transform voltage from high to low, or the reverse, or perform any of several other important functions. Between the generating station an ...
.
Feda Church is located in the village, serving the southern part of the Kvinesdal municipality.
From 1900 to 1963 Feda was the administrative centre of
Feda municipality.
Name
The municipality (originally the
parish
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest#Christianity, priest, often termed a parish pries ...
) is named after the old "Fede" farm. The name of the farm comes from the river ''Fedaelva'' which flows into the ''Fedafjorden'' near the farm.
Notable people
Media gallery
Feda 2009.jpg, View of Feda from the bridge across the Fedafjorden
Feda 2 (864962627).jpg, View of Feda
Fedaelva og Fedafjorden 2010-07-04.jpg, Mouth of the Fedaelva at the Fedafjorden
References
External links
Weather information for Feda
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Villages in Agder
Kvinesdal