Langøya is an

island An island or isle is a piece of land, distinct from a continent, completely surrounded by water. There are continental islands, which were formed by being split from a continent by plate tectonics, and oceanic islands, which have never been ...

Sandefjord Municipality Sandefjord () is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Vestfold. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Sandefjord ...

Vestfold Vestfold () is a county and a current electoral district in Norway. Located on the western shore of the Oslofjord, it borders Buskerud and Telemark counties. The county administration is located in Tønsberg, Norway's oldest city, and the larg ...

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 island is located in the

Tønsbergfjorden Tønsbergfjorden is a fjord in Vestfold county, Norway. The long fjord runs between the mainland (Sandefjord Municipality) and the islands of Tjøme and Nøtterøy (Færder Municipality). The fjord has a number of islands located within it inclu ...

, just outside the village of Skravestad. The island is accessible through a bridge that connects to the road Sandsveien. The island was named for its long shape. The long island has an area of . It consists of farm fields, hills, and forests. It is a car-free island consisting of meadows, knolls, salt meadows, small bays, and forests. It became a landscape conservation area in 2006. It is known for its wide variety of rare wildflowers including species such as

sea thrift ''Armeria maritima'', the thrift, sea thrift or sea pink, is a species of flowering plant in the family Plumbaginaceae. It is a compact evergreen perennial which grows in low clumps and sends up long stems that support globes of bright pink flow ...

, alternate-leaved golden-saxifrage, cowslip,

greater yellow-rattle ''Rhinanthus angustifolius'', the narrow-leaved rattle or greater yellow-rattle, is a plant species in the broomrape family, Orobanchaceae. It is an annual wildflower native to temperate grasslands in much of Europe, and north and central Western ...

, sticky catchfly, and many others.

History

Five burial mounds from the

Bronze Age The Bronze Age () was a historical period characterised principally by the use of bronze tools and the development of complex urban societies, as well as the adoption of writing in some areas. The Bronze Age is the middle principal period of ...

have been discovered on the island. Throughout most of the 1600s, the island belonged to residents of

Tønsberg Tønsberg (), historically Tunsberg, is a List of towns and cities in Norway, city in Tønsberg Municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. It is located about south-southwest of the capital city of Oslo on the western coast of the Oslofjord near ...

. In the 1660s, it was purchased and managed from Skravestad in Stokke. Historically, the island had been a part of

Sandeherred Sandar (or historically Sandeherred) is a former municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1968. The area is now part of Sandefjord Municipality. The administrative centre was located a ...

and

Stokke Stokke is a List of former municipalities of Norway, former municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution on 1 January 2017. The area is now part of Sandefjord Municipality. The administrative ...

municipalities. The small Skravestadholmen cape area in the southwestern part of the island was part of Sandeherred (which later became part of Sandefjord). The rest of the island was part of

municipality which also became part of Sandefjord in 2016.

References

Sandefjord Nature reserves in Norway Islands of Vestfold {{Vestfold-geo-stub

History

See also

References